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If this book is for you, bless you. If you give it a chance, may you find some comfort even for a quick moment and remember, it may just be goodbye for now. 6/6


1st Rating & Review January 5, 2026 📊4⭐
Change Rating & Reformat Review October 5, 2026 📊5⭐

If this book is for you, bless you. If you give it a chance, may you find some comfort even for a quick moment and remember, it may just be goodbye for now. 6/6


1st Rating & Review January 5, 2026 📊4⭐
Change Rating & Reformat Review October 5, 2026 📊5⭐

That love found is love cherished and treasured for however long we are privileged to have it. May you find comfort in your loss and joy in your sorrows. 5/6

Contrary to the depression stage of grief may suggest, the world is open and warm, only if we allow ourselves to see for that capacity. May we take the loss of our loved ones as reminders that life is indeed worth living, in the risk and reward of being able to find love so worthwhile, the length of it ceases to matter. 4/6

I recommend this book for those who want to keep memories alive of their dear departed loved ones and to keep true to those memories, to hold the good more than the bad and to live with warm hearts as we, the left behind, continue to try to find new meaning and new joys in the world. 3.5/6

Tears and ache for the words embodied by this work may find its reader a way to cope with grief or to find companionship in the idea of fellow mourners if real life is lacking in that comfort. 3/6

This book was a to be read for months in an attempt to grief a great loss, in the process of which this reader lost another. As reality and this books reminds us, mortality is an all too inevitable outcome that comes for all and that it is only a matter of when, where and how. 2/6

More than a year in this book journey, loved ones lost and kept to heart, this has been a heart-wrenching read as much as it was heart-warming. To love another with so much desperation that you would envision a life where they remain even after death as you come to terms with the reality of grief and the life left to lived, yet without them that we hold dear. 1/6

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"Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty."

The change-up is crazy.

The changeling changing back. All changes point to: where's the real mortal KAYE FIERCH and who is she? Furthermore, what is with the Fae war's truce and how does RATH ROIBEN RYE fit into with KAYE?

27...She thought of faeries she had known when she was a child...The man bleeding in the dirt beside her told her how wrong her perceptions of Faery had been.

30... "I will answer three, as full and well as is within my power." [Like a faerie tale]

37... She didn't want to want someone she would never have. [Roiben of the Unseelie Court]

Imaginary faeries and an encounter straight out of a fictional world, yes much like those hallmark movies where a prince comes to the real world. The slow build up seems to be leaning towards a selective exposure of fae kind suggesting that Kaye's imaginary friends are real but not witnessed by any others.

Its quite a slow pace to reach the synopsis points.

By happenstance, this was brought along for a medical checkup, and although I am not unreasonably or commonly anxious for such visits, it helped ease the mind. Baring the body and anxiety uppers and downers would serve well in plenty of scenarios.

This is proving to be a good on-the-go, fits into literal pockets kind of book for its convenience as it is about the size of most phones nowadays.

Short form sympathetic text of relatable testimonials and intriguing journal type writing style so far.

Quite so rare that a books back cover synopsis is on point that it is as if the first page of the book follows through what was printed to attract the reader or buyer. Whether intentional or happenstance, it is an underrated and appreciated writing choice.

04.01 All fools day...people are sent on the purpose for merriment

04.04 ...the great empire of silence. The noble silent men...silently thinking, silently working; whom no [one] makes mention of!

04.06 Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own

04.07 The bliss of animals lies in...[living in the] holy carelessness of the eternal now

03.29 To be loved, and to love, need courage - to judge certain values as of ultimate concern - and to take the jump and stake everything on these values

03.30 ...the great man is he who in the midst of crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude

03.31 ...
today has endless possibilities, do good, fight against bad, deserve confidence, appreciate, be kind, be gentle, speak it again, still again

03.21 A wise man will make haste to forgive...To be happy we need to forgive others
happiness ans peace begin with an open heart than knows pain and when to avoid its use

03.22 The man that is open of heart to his neighbor...His luck shall be with him whatever he strikes

03.24 I'll act with prudence as far as i am able... I'll meet the with an undaunted mind

03.27 ...
happiness is love, renewed when lost

03.16 He who, secure within, can say; Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today

03.18 Self-live but serves...
one starts within oneself, sooner to the next a d to more, it shall affect similarly. Love yourself, love your neighbor

03.19 Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones

03.20 ...Hath in't more value, though less seen
quality may serve better when quantity fails still

03.09 ...jump in and scramble through...
enough planning, live life as it happens

03.10 ...I shall not live in vain...
no matter small the relief or aid I offer, it will matter, it will make a difference

03.12 If I am like someone else who will be like me?

03.14 ...How sweet thy modest unaffected pride...
confidence true to heart may overcome many trials of counterance and unpleasantness

By the end of the 4th section, JESSICA.

The clichés are heavy-handed in portraying a past-their-prime celebrity in their desperate efforts to stay relevant despite obvious and natural decay from the industry. Drama on top of drama following what was laid out in previous character sections.

Soap opera realism (×) trashy chit lit genre for extra dramatic plot juiciness seems like the likely recipe of this writing.

One would think for this book that the young woman with the highly complicated serious but questionable relationship who manipulates a wedded man who is not her assumed boyfriend into a purely physical relationship with the husband of a regular client would be the most distasteful concept here. Unfortunately not since that client was pushed to terminate a pregnancy by the same guy as he cheats repeatedly on her. Uh.

Going into the third (3rd) section now and its proving to be interestingly predictable with its juicy realism even with disappointing bits about supressing justified reactions to terrible behaviors from supposed loved ones. The 'happy-hubby-happy-life' is a detestible example of the things these women put up with in this narrative which could be sweet but its just being understanding to a person who is not deserving.

Beginning to see the salacious network of relationships the writer had in mind. This is slowly turning into what seems like an affair within an affair narrative proving the 'its a small world' circumstance and how karma is much faster in smaller circles.

Della is the type of book character who you continue to read for not because they are great or pleasant as she is distasteful and a mean girl so far. Instead, you keep reading to see how her karma catches up to her and how ironic her story comes to in the end.

Onto the second section's focus character where one is reminded to hold off hate and distaste for a character until the end of the book. For movies, its easy to separate the actor from the character, the more hated the role, the better the acting. Books on the othed hand have only the writer to credit for the reception of a character.

This Della character is making it hard to give a happy birthday to her.

The first section is a good start and an entertainingly realistic snippet of how children see the world. Without knowledge of the otherness than of being kids but with the desire of being treated as adults from the moment they can speak. Their speech also being formed phonetically before it is logically sensible. The effort to make the narrative as if spoken by a child is acknowledged for the Scarlett character.

Stopped at mid-2025 and have not yet returned to read.

Ending this feels like a stretch fully stretched since the narrative diversions occur at almost every page. Confusion was ensured with its constant referencing to parallels in Literature, Science, Arts, History and well researched ideas throughout centuries' development.

With Women Studies, its author's central idea and lens, this ended with a maturing female perspective sprinkled with skepticism and discrepancy.

The writing is now arduous and lengthy in distractive narratives and fourth wall ruptures of text and monologued internal or narrated thoughts. Confusion erupting at every page turn as each point is prolonged by an unrelated and highly scientific diversion thought halted only if the reader is unaware or without understanding of the endless references.

Understood with much patience as direction is unpredictable.