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The Paradox of Love and Death: Book 1 of The Paradox of Love Series: (A Sapphic / Lesbian Contemporary Romance)
Funeral crashing has been the best way for Noemi Moretti to release her pent-up emotions after the death of her parents. But on the anniversary of their passing, she meets Amara Forsythe, a beautiful UCLA student mourning her grandmother. Fate brings them together again at another funeral, but Noemi hides her true intentions from Amara. As their relationship blossoms, so do the lies that threaten to tear them apart. Can Noemi find a way to make things right before it's too late?
THE PARADOX OF LOVE AND DEATH follows Noemi as she navigates through her grief and falls for Amara. But with secrets and guilt weighing heavily on her conscience, Noemi must confront the consequences of her actions before it's too late. Fans of emotional and thought-provoking sapphic romances will love this poignant tale of love, loss, and what it means to truly live. As their connection deepens, so do the lies, and Noemi doesn’t know how to make it right. She soon becomes caught in a tangled mess that threatens to tear her, and her burgeoning relationship, apart.
For readers who enjoyed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, you won't want to miss out on this powerful and heartfelt novel. THE PARADOX OF LOVE AND DEATH is a profound and heart-tugging sapphic adult romance about death, love, and what it really means to be alive.
THE PARADOX OF LOVE AND DEATH follows Noemi as she navigates through her grief and falls for Amara. But with secrets and guilt weighing heavily on her conscience, Noemi must confront the consequences of her actions before it's too late. Fans of emotional and thought-provoking sapphic romances will love this poignant tale of love, loss, and what it means to truly live. As their connection deepens, so do the lies, and Noemi doesn’t know how to make it right. She soon becomes caught in a tangled mess that threatens to tear her, and her burgeoning relationship, apart.
For readers who enjoyed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, you won't want to miss out on this powerful and heartfelt novel. THE PARADOX OF LOVE AND DEATH is a profound and heart-tugging sapphic adult romance about death, love, and what it really means to be alive.
427 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 5, 2024
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Artemis Glass
7 books4 followersArtemis Glass (she/they) is a multi-genre author of sensually empowering queer adult romance who is on a lifelong journey to reclaim her sources of pleasure. By day she writes and encourages others to write. By night, she writes more, and she also organizes inclusive movement and breathing classes that are rooted in post-patriarchal feminine and gender expansive witch practices, queer ecology, and love. Artemis is a compulsive learner who is obsessed with the etymology of flowers, sapphic history, holistic eroticism, and the recovery of her Mediterranean and Eastern European ancestral goddess wisdom.
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April 23, 2024
Noemi Amato at the age of twenty has a good life. She lives with her mothers sister Ava, her husband Elijah and two very young cousins. She doesn’t mind living with them and enjoys her time with her niece and nephew. She’s the babysitter/nanny and a wonderful companion for the children. She has her freedom and attends Alameda Community College and has hopes to transfer to Cal State. Her best friend since eighth grade is Gael Mendoza, she attends the same college. Gael is very active at the college and hopes to transfer to UC Berkeley. She is the first non-binary Vice-President of the Associated Students and focuses on events supporting the LGBTQ+ community. They are working on a poetry assignment together and need to meet and compare notes.
Noemi’s Aunt Ava and Uncle Elijah have supported her and pay her way through college and they even pay her a stipend. She rides her bike most every where she goes. At the age of eleven she lost her mother and tragedy struct again at the age of twelve with her father’s death.
Noemi is smart and pretty normal as any twenty year old, except she’s a “funeral crasher" and keeps it very secret. She doesn’t cause any problems, she goes and listens to the eulogies and cries. She checks the “ObitLocator” and selects the next funeral to attend. She celebrates the “deathiversary” of her parents. It seems she’s searching for a way to grieve her parents and she’s found her own way to deal with it. But she’s alone in her feelings. No one sees her, Aunt Ava doesn’t see it and no one acknowledges the death of her parents and it all makes her very sad. Noemi has had her Mothers old MAC from the time she started high school. She visits her mothers face book page often and learns of all the things her Mother cared about.
On one particular day she selected the funeral for Edith Dixon. The service really reflected how wonderful Edith was. She was married, had daughters and granddaughters. Noemi could only think how wonderful it was to have a mother figure to bond with, even if it was a disagreement. Amara, one of the granddaughters stood up and spoke of Edith. Amara is a first year student at UCLA and Noemi took an interest in her right away. After the services Noemi selects another funeral to attend for Charles Robert Reed Jr. She’s off again, on her bike with her box of tissues.
When she attends Charles’s funeral she finds herself in trouble. As Amara spots her at the funeral. She finds herself in a difficult situation as she also meets Francis, Charles’ girlfriend, who’s pregnant. Noemi really likes Amara but she finds herself lying about a few too many things. She really doesn’t mean too and feels shame and awkward. The more she has to lie it becomes difficult in what she needs to do. As she and Amara start spending time together the more they become involved and Noemi knows she has to tell Amara the truth. She fears that if she tells the truth she will loose Amara and be alone again.
Artemis Glass creates a sapphic story of growing up and all things most of us question and face in life. Life, death, birth, loss of friendship, new love, breakups, reuniting and surviving in the world today. The author pulls at the heart strings with so many heartfelt moments that Noemi faces with: Amara, Aunt Ava, Francis and Gael. It brings to the forefront that throughout life all people become busy, go in different directions but it doesn’t mean abandonment or they no longer care. There’s also moments that what Noemi did were not such bad lies as they bring humor to the story and create just the right moments of happiness. The more that Noemi shares her true feelings, she finds that more of the people she’s connected to understand her.
The author, along with poetry and poets such as: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass, Angelina Welde Grimke and Amy Lowell, brings movies and music that deal in the subject of death.
I highly recommend “The Paradox of Love and Death” by Artemis Glass. This is a wonderfully written, easy to read story and I’m positive everyone who reads this may have asked many of the questions that Noemi dealt with. Although, this novel deals in sensitive issues, it is bound to leave readers with a message of hope.
Noemi’s Aunt Ava and Uncle Elijah have supported her and pay her way through college and they even pay her a stipend. She rides her bike most every where she goes. At the age of eleven she lost her mother and tragedy struct again at the age of twelve with her father’s death.
Noemi is smart and pretty normal as any twenty year old, except she’s a “funeral crasher" and keeps it very secret. She doesn’t cause any problems, she goes and listens to the eulogies and cries. She checks the “ObitLocator” and selects the next funeral to attend. She celebrates the “deathiversary” of her parents. It seems she’s searching for a way to grieve her parents and she’s found her own way to deal with it. But she’s alone in her feelings. No one sees her, Aunt Ava doesn’t see it and no one acknowledges the death of her parents and it all makes her very sad. Noemi has had her Mothers old MAC from the time she started high school. She visits her mothers face book page often and learns of all the things her Mother cared about.
On one particular day she selected the funeral for Edith Dixon. The service really reflected how wonderful Edith was. She was married, had daughters and granddaughters. Noemi could only think how wonderful it was to have a mother figure to bond with, even if it was a disagreement. Amara, one of the granddaughters stood up and spoke of Edith. Amara is a first year student at UCLA and Noemi took an interest in her right away. After the services Noemi selects another funeral to attend for Charles Robert Reed Jr. She’s off again, on her bike with her box of tissues.
When she attends Charles’s funeral she finds herself in trouble. As Amara spots her at the funeral. She finds herself in a difficult situation as she also meets Francis, Charles’ girlfriend, who’s pregnant. Noemi really likes Amara but she finds herself lying about a few too many things. She really doesn’t mean too and feels shame and awkward. The more she has to lie it becomes difficult in what she needs to do. As she and Amara start spending time together the more they become involved and Noemi knows she has to tell Amara the truth. She fears that if she tells the truth she will loose Amara and be alone again.
Artemis Glass creates a sapphic story of growing up and all things most of us question and face in life. Life, death, birth, loss of friendship, new love, breakups, reuniting and surviving in the world today. The author pulls at the heart strings with so many heartfelt moments that Noemi faces with: Amara, Aunt Ava, Francis and Gael. It brings to the forefront that throughout life all people become busy, go in different directions but it doesn’t mean abandonment or they no longer care. There’s also moments that what Noemi did were not such bad lies as they bring humor to the story and create just the right moments of happiness. The more that Noemi shares her true feelings, she finds that more of the people she’s connected to understand her.
The author, along with poetry and poets such as: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass, Angelina Welde Grimke and Amy Lowell, brings movies and music that deal in the subject of death.
I highly recommend “The Paradox of Love and Death” by Artemis Glass. This is a wonderfully written, easy to read story and I’m positive everyone who reads this may have asked many of the questions that Noemi dealt with. Although, this novel deals in sensitive issues, it is bound to leave readers with a message of hope.
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