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Why the Willow Weeps
150 pages, Paperback
Published June 26, 2024
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May 12, 2025
It's the best book I've ever read in my entire life. I mean, wrote. Giggle.
September 13, 2024
Note: I received a complimentary copy of the book from the author via Voracious Readers Only.
This was an easy read with a charming plot. A young man (boy? I don't recall his age being mentioned) moves to a country home with his parents and finds himself switching between his life and the life of his lookalike two hundred years previous - who is in a secret relationship with a man.
I liked that the book didn't shy away from its Southern States setting, acknowledging not only the slavery that would have happened in such a home but also showing the progress over the centuries via the descendant of the mentioned slave. I was also fond of the protagonist Chase's lingo baffled not only his modern parents but his historical ones, and showing a sharp contrast between their reactions.
I do feel that this book was churned out very quickly, especially when looking at the author's book showing three books, three children's books, three colouring books and eight journals all published in the span of a month and all using AI images. I found the descriptions to be vague and repepetitive, and the characters to be bland - although I do somewhat expect this from romance books to some degree.
The most bizarre thing about this book is that it's only five chapters long, with chapter four taking up a whopping 55% of the book. This left the book feeling unstructured and rambling in the middle.
While I found the ending predictable, I found it sweet that the time loop closed fully. I would recommend this book for what I would call a 'vibing read'; when I'm hanging with a friend, 'vibing', and we're simultaniously having a conversation and doing our own thing, they probably a video game, me probably a book I can easily jump in and out of without missing the details.
This was an easy read with a charming plot. A young man (boy? I don't recall his age being mentioned) moves to a country home with his parents and finds himself switching between his life and the life of his lookalike two hundred years previous - who is in a secret relationship with a man.
I liked that the book didn't shy away from its Southern States setting, acknowledging not only the slavery that would have happened in such a home but also showing the progress over the centuries via the descendant of the mentioned slave. I was also fond of the protagonist Chase's lingo baffled not only his modern parents but his historical ones, and showing a sharp contrast between their reactions.
I do feel that this book was churned out very quickly, especially when looking at the author's book showing three books, three children's books, three colouring books and eight journals all published in the span of a month and all using AI images. I found the descriptions to be vague and repepetitive, and the characters to be bland - although I do somewhat expect this from romance books to some degree.
The most bizarre thing about this book is that it's only five chapters long, with chapter four taking up a whopping 55% of the book. This left the book feeling unstructured and rambling in the middle.
While I found the ending predictable, I found it sweet that the time loop closed fully. I would recommend this book for what I would call a 'vibing read'; when I'm hanging with a friend, 'vibing', and we're simultaniously having a conversation and doing our own thing, they probably a video game, me probably a book I can easily jump in and out of without missing the details.
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