I just want to say, for Young Adult book, this book captivated me.
I can't stop reading this until morning come. The story is sooo beautiful. The romance is sweet, yet romantic. I adore the author's idea to make the story based on "Scarborough Fair" song. or The ELFIN KNIGHT song

THE ELFIN KNIGHT

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She must be a true love of mine

Tell her she'll sleep in a goose-feather bed
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Tell her I sear she'll have nothing to dread
She must be a true love of mine

Tell her tomorrow her answer make known
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
What e'er she may say I'll not leave her alone
She must be a true love of mine

Her answer came in a week and a day
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
I'm sorry good sir, I must answer thee nay
I'll not be a true love of thine

From the sting of my curse she can never be free
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Unless she unravels my riddlings three
She will be a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a magical shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Without any seam or needlework
Else she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand
Else she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to plow it with just a goat's horn
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
And sow it all over with one grain of corn
Else she'll be a true love of mine
And her daughters forever possessions of mine

This song is beautiful but also intriguing and haunting. Because of this song too, the heroine Lucy, got raped when she go home from the prom, and get pregnant. If she don't want to be crazy and lost her child, and then her child have a same fate like her and her predecessor, she must do three impossible task. The task based on that song. To make a magical shirt without any seam or needlework, to find an acre of land between salt water and sea strand, and then plow it with just a goat's horn and sow it with just one grain of corn. Such an impossible task, while Lucy get pregnant too.

But she get help from her foster mother, Soledad, and her friend (then turn to be her husband) Zach. With their help, she can do the task and believe she will not face the same fate.Of course all will not easily done. The Elfin Knight will do anything to prevent her success and to make Lucy, and her daughters in his possession forever.

Actually, rape theme make me cringed, but not in this book. The rape scene not described but we can feel Lucy's feeling after she'd raped. She's not weak, she's though. Why I thought about that? Because when she resist to do abortion, I congratulate her.

I'm glad she do that, to love her child,no matter who is her father
I love Zach too. He love Lucy and want to married her, because he care about Lucy and the baby. He's not hesitate to drop out from college, just to become a husband for Lucy. And then when Lucy know about the family curse, Scarborough's curse, he help her, from the start until the end.

Unfortunately, the ending is too easy. I want something dramatical event in the end, but it not happen. Still, this book is good. I rarely give 5 stars to YA book, because sometimes I feel the book is like Twilight, has same genre, bored me to death. But not for Impossible. This book have some morals. Like what you do if you've been raped. Not to succumb to sadness, desperate, but to face it! I'm not bothered with an early marriage topic in this book, because it a must do. Zach and Lucy not do that because lust. But for the baby, for their life, and for their love too...

GREAT Books, and I looking forward for Nancy Werlin's other title.

Some of my favorite quote from this book :

"When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts."

"Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?" ==> I agree with this *LOL*