Book Review: Above All Else / Dana Alison Levy

Tate and Rose have been best friends FOREVER. They have enjoyed climbing and challenging themselves to difficult climbs for nearly as long. And now they are on a trip of a lifetime, a trip to summit Mount Everest in Nepal.

But things don't go as planned, the characters learn about themselves, their worlds get broadened, and they kiss A LOT. 

Why am I blogging about this book? (You all know that romance isn't my gig!) This book made me think about priorities. Dana Alison Levy really jumped into the research about summiting Mount Everest and there is a lot of information here that I had never thought about. For example, many of the people in Nepal are poor. On the other hand, it costs more than $60,000 to summit Mount Everest. Such a contrast. Sherpas moving up and down the mountain and often owning little while catering to men and women who can pay that amount of money to suffer for days to see how they will fair when faced with such acute adversity and huge challenge. And that was just the beginning of the thinking.

If you love the outdoors. If you love to challenge yourself. If you love to read about kissing (skim it if you don't) read this book.

You will find it in print in our library.