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brandyrae's review
5.0
I sincerely feel this book will one day be considered a modern classic.
It is a story of war, terrible and brutal; of love, kind, searching, enduring; loss and grief, and apocalypses great and small. Sometimes, when the world ends, it's not on a grand world stage. It's personal. What do we do when our worlds end?
It's so hard to know what I can say about this book. This is my first arc (provided by netgalley) and this book won't be out for two months!
I need to tell you all the reasons I love Laura and Pim. How they literally collide into each other after both having lost everything and have to find their paths forward. All the reasons I love Freddie and Winter, reborn together in darkness and how far their paths diverge. The two stories start at different times and when you get to the point where they converge? Magic.
It's like a brutally realistic historical fantasy steampunk-esque reimagining of Orpheus and Eurydice, but like platonic (the romances in this book are perfect though not at all the main plot, just that quiet genuine love that grows when you are with a person. ugh, so good).
I don't think I have to give this back? So I will definitely be re-reading it but I've also put in my pre-order for a physical copy. I need to do some annotating.
It is a story of war, terrible and brutal; of love, kind, searching, enduring; loss and grief, and apocalypses great and small. Sometimes, when the world ends, it's not on a grand world stage. It's personal. What do we do when our worlds end?
It's so hard to know what I can say about this book. This is my first arc (provided by netgalley) and this book won't be out for two months!
I need to tell you all the reasons I love Laura and Pim. How they literally collide into each other after both having lost everything and have to find their paths forward. All the reasons I love Freddie and Winter, reborn together in darkness and how far their paths diverge. The two stories start at different times and when you get to the point where they converge? Magic.
It's like a brutally realistic historical fantasy steampunk-esque reimagining of Orpheus and Eurydice, but like platonic (the romances in this book are perfect though not at all the main plot, just that quiet genuine love that grows when you are with a person. ugh, so good).
I don't think I have to give this back? So I will definitely be re-reading it but I've also put in my pre-order for a physical copy. I need to do some annotating.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Death, War, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Religious bigotry
minxreads's review
Idk what I was expecting but I wasn’t expecting this. It wasn’t really my cup of tea. I thought it would be kinda like divine rivals or something like that but it was all war, war, war and war; then it’s description. I knew it was going to be the backdrop and significant part of it, but nothing about this book hooked me in from the characters to their story. I find myself skimming till the very end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Blood, and War
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