Thank you to Tillie Cole, Penguin Random House and NetGalley for this arc!

Tillie, you can expect my therapy bill….when I say this book had me SOBBING, I mean my heart hasn’t stopped hurting since.
After having my heart trampled on my A Thousand Boy Kisses and A Wish For Us, I was feeling brave and thought I would try and another Tillie Cole book - gals….this one is another level of heartbreak.

Write Me For You follows June, who after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, is offered a spot on a clinical trial in what is her last chance at survival. It takes her to Harmony Ranch, where she meets a group of other kids her age in the same tragic circumstances and she crosses paths with Jesse, a handsome and charming would-be star QB hoping for another chance at life.

This book gave me everything I wanted and more and while I was inevitably left heartbroken at the end, the journey to get there was beautiful. I loved June and Jesse’s story and the found family aspect of the book was so heartwarming. I’m not usually a fan of insta-love but this was so sweet, and considering that June and Jesse were both only seventeen, it was probably quite accurate!

This is perfect for fans of The Notebook, A Walk to Remember and The Fault In Our Stars - it’s probably a perfect combo of all 3!

Will definitely be thinking about this one for a while. I don’t want to give to much of the plot away but I will recommend this to anyone who wants to have their heart ripped out and put back together again but with a little piece missing.

Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in return for an honest review. Oh my goodness!! This story absolutely broke me! I was literally sobbing my heart out by the end. A beautifully written love story with amazing characters. My favourite Tillie Cole book by far. Please prepare yourself for heartbreak before reading this one! One of my favourite books so far this year. 5stars.

𝒲𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝑀𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝓇 𝒴𝑜𝓊 by Tillie Cole 🩰

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Prepare to be utterly undone and beautifully put back together...

Tillie Cole delivers a soul-crushing, life-affirming tale that reminds us time isn’t promised—but love, if written deeply enough, can echo forever.
Jesse and June’s journey made me sob, smile, and re-evaluate everything I thought I knew about love and life.

Reading this was a revelation: a call to stop dimming your light for fear, to stop letting insecurities script your life. Time is a gift—don’t waste it.

I would recommend Write Me For You 100 times over. And then maybe 100 more.

This book had me sobbing! I’m not sure I’ll ever recover but I physically couldn’t put it down and stayed up until 1am (when I had work at 7am) so that I could finish it in one story.

Write Me For You is a heartbreakingly beautiful love story between June and Jesse. I loved both of the main characters and their journeys.

I do feel like this story is best to be read going in completely blind so I don’t want to spoil too much of the story but be prepared to cry.

Tillie Cole makes her characters feel so real but I didn’t love this one as much as ‘A thousand boy kisses’ and it was al little too instalove for my preferences making it a 4 star read rather than 5 stars for me.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for approving me to read this, I’m rating it 5 stars.

Tillie Cole’s books hold such a special place in my heart. This book took me on such a journey and although I won’t lie I feel emotionally devastated, it was still so beautiful. I found this book somewhat relatable in how well the author captures the authentic emotions of all the characters, be it the main characters or the loved ones.

This book takes you on a journey and it’s a bumpy ride, but I really want to emphasise how stunning some of the moments along the way are. We get new connections in the form of romance and friendship, it’s a story with loss but we also see how much our main characters gain and it’s overwhelming but so enriching. The end didn’t feel like an ending, it really felt like it was our characters new beginning.

Tillie Cole books are great if you are in need of a good cry. A wonderfully written story - a very heavy topic but its written really well and was honestly a brilliant read

Wow what a beautifully written story. So heartbreaking but I love a good cry & this gave me that. Amazingly gut wrenching!!!

This book wrecked me 😭

Tillie handles an incredibly heavy story with such grace. I thought I had a grip on myself, because you sort of know where the story is going, but in the end I still broke down. I think the less you know going into it the better, so I’ll keep this short. June and Jesse’s story is one of loss, grief and love. It’s beautifully written and deeply moving. Keep the tissues handy.

Thank you so much to Tillie Cole, the publisher and NetGalley for the arc.

'Our faces were heavily lined with wrinkles, our hair was thinning and gray, and our laughter lines... they were my favorite. They were deep and long and boasted of a life filled with fun and joy.'

I know that this author has had me in tears on many occasions with her other books, and I expected nothing less with this one.

This is such a lovely story, very well told as I knew it would be. It is heartbreaking yet brilliant.

Another must read for fans of the author but have tissues to hand.

This read is way out of my comfort zone but what a beautiful story it was

Extremely well written, sad, heartbreaking and funny in parts with great characters.

Thank you to Netgalley and Michael Joseph Penguin for this ARC which I can thoroughly recommend.

the most amazing love story….
trigger warning teenage cancer.
it’s a hard read but it’s written so beautifully with love and laughter, friends and family
it’s a story of dreams and hope but also reality
a book i won’t forget

this book took me a while to finish,not because it wasn’t good but because the topic was heavy. grief, illness and all the emotional weight that comes with it. from the start, i expected the story to be angsty so i was mentally prepared. eventhough it was sad, it didn’t bring me to tears maybe because i was bracing myself the whole time. however, there were a few parts i skimmed through not because they weren’t important, but because i was eager to see how everything would end.

overall, i’d say this was a good read. it’s not light or easy, but if you're in the mood for something angsty and real, this is worth picking up.

Do not pick up this book.. unless you are fine with being absolutely heartbroken over and over again! It isn’t a surprise when it comes to Tillie Cole, as she is known for being able to delve into topics such as grief, loss, and illness and incorporate them into such beautiful stories.

Write Me For You is the story of young adults, teenagers, who have acute myeloid leukaemia. June, Jesse, Chris, and Emma are brought together through a clinical trial as a last hope for treatment and Tillie Cole manages to create such a bond between these characters and the reader from the beginning. This story is gut-wrenching but also indescribably beautifully written and told, and it is one that may contest to how devastating her prior works such as A Thousand Boy Kisses turned out to be.

No one can write these types of books but Tillie Cole. I feel like I sobbed from start to finish, and it even brought out an ugly cry, but it was definitely one that changed my perspective of life, especially through the exploration of parallel universes. 5 stars, and not enough words to describe how breathtaking this was.

First of all thank you for approving my request!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The authors writing style had me hooked throughout this book.

I didn't want it to end, a book I really couldn't put down.

This is a five-star read you will need the tissues for, but it is such a good story that even if you need a whole box of tissues, you still won’t be able to forget this story. I have loved this author, and a thousand boy kisses still has the ability to bring me to tears when I think about it and recommend it to people as one of the best stories ever, and this is going to do exactly the same. There was just something special about the way this story weaves. June and Jesse will envelop you into their story, and make you feel like you can’t help but root for them in any way possible. No matter the timeline, you feel for them, team two for the win will be something that will stay with me forever. I loved how this story flowed and managed to bring something for everyone, I don’t want to tell the end, but it broke me and put me back together, and if I’m honest it broke me in a beautiful way that I feel will help me put some pieces back together as well, pieces that have been broken after losing someone so close to me I feared I would never be whole again, this story has the power to help those pieces start to move closer together again, only a teeny tiny amount, but still any movement is worth it for me. This author has a way with words that have a special magic, that puts pieces of your broken heart back together again.

Tillie Cole just knows how to shatter my heart in to a million pieces. I just love June and Jesse, I can’t even put in the words how much I loved this book. If I could rate it 10 stars I would.

The books starts with June who has never been in love and has been diagnosed with stage 4 AML, she is given an opportunity to be part of a trial in the hopes it would cure here. As soon as she arrives at the ranch, she knows that Jesse is the one.

I wish I could read more about them, I am definitely adding a finished copy to my book shelf when this is published.

Read and reviewed in exchange for a free copy from Netgalley. Devoured in an afternoon at the beach, this book was a wonderful 100th book of 2025. Heartwrenching and tender, Cole completely draws you into June and Jesse's world. It was well-paced and well-written, with vivid characters and an interesting setting. Although the flitting between timelines got confusing in places, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the book. I am keen to read more by this author.

As soon as I saw this was a Tillie Cole book, I had to read it.

Books that explore sickness and disabilities always draw me in—like A Thousand Boy Kisses, one of my favourites. Every time I read it, I cry—and honestly, I love crying over a good book. So I went into this hoping for the same kind of emotional experience.

While the story was definitely sad, it didn’t make me cry, so I was a bit disappointed. I think one big reason for that is the way the illness was revealed. In A Thousand Boy Kisses, we find out about the character’s leukemia about a quarter or halfway through, and that made it hit much harder. In this book, we know from the very beginning that the character has leukemia, which softened the impact. It felt like I was bracing for it the whole time, so the sadness didn’t hit quite as deeply.

There were a couple of stylistic choices that pulled me out of the story. One was the use of the word “ditto.” I hate that word—it feels so halfhearted. I know Jesse’s feelings were anything but that, but “ditto” just put me off. The other was the word “rasped”—it was used so often that it started to stand out too much and lose its effect.

One thing I really liked, though, was how age-appropriate the characters felt. A lot of YA books with teen protagonists have them acting or having to be older than they actually are (like in Shatter Me—not a bad thing, just harder to relate to). But in this story, I could see how the characters actually matched their age.

That said, I did get really confused during the flashback. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I’ll just say it was hard to tell when we were in the timeline. I thought the flashback had ended, but then things happened that made me think we were still in it—there was something that happened between Jesse and June both before and during the flashback which really confused me. The flashback is a big part of the story, and I feel like I missed the effect it was supposed to have because I was confused while reading it.

Overall, I liked the book and I’m glad I read it. But I don’t think it’s one I’d re-read or buy a physical copy of. Even though this review might sound mixed, I’m still really excited for more of Tillie’s books to be released.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Tillie for the ARC ❤️‍🩹😭🎀

I read this book in a day - I wasn’t really sure what to expect but this book made me SOB more than any other books have ever made me sob.

I won’t say too much as I don’t want to spoil it too much but I will say this - as someone who’s lost my brother to cancer, this was SUCH a hard read. I probably would have preferred to know that the ending was bittersweet, so that I could at least prepare myself.

The way this book deals with sickness, pain & grief is SO REAL and SO RAW. I felt it in my bones. I honestly could not stop reading it; I felt like I was IN the story with Jesse and June and I was rooting for them and their happily ever after from page 1. Both characters are so so touching. I’m usually not a big YA reader but because of the topics of this book, it definitely didn’t feel too young.

I would say - please get the tissues ready if you’d like to read this story. It’s heartbreaking, real and beautiful.

Wow wow so! I was smitten from reading the summary alone and then after reading it I couldn’t put it down! I just knew it was going to be a good one and I was not disappointed. What a beautiful book! This one will stay with me a long time. If you looking for an epic love story that makes you feel all the fells be sure to check this one out you won’t revere it