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debs_shelves's review
4.0
Solid 4.5 stars!
Meet Beatrice. As a child a fortune teller tells her she will meet her soul mate but he will die young.
She's in her twenties. A quirky jewelry designer, recently broken up from her surfer dude boyfriend, who didn't suit her at all.
For some reason she reads personal ads (she never does that!) and sees one that says "If your intentions are pure I'm seeking a friend for the end of the world". It speaks to her and after some debate, she makes a call. And gets answering machine! She leaves a messages and life goes on.
A couple weeks later she gets a call - from Jacob, the man who placed the ad. They decide to meet up and it's as if they were meant to be.
He moves in quickly and they being their quirky life together. They both deal with the past and the present. Both have "daddy" issues. And they fall in love.
This book has ups and downs, humor and tragedy. And you'll find yourself wanting to hang out with Trixie (as Jacob calls her) and having a crush on Jacob Grace.
Meet Beatrice. As a child a fortune teller tells her she will meet her soul mate but he will die young.
She's in her twenties. A quirky jewelry designer, recently broken up from her surfer dude boyfriend, who didn't suit her at all.
For some reason she reads personal ads (she never does that!) and sees one that says "If your intentions are pure I'm seeking a friend for the end of the world". It speaks to her and after some debate, she makes a call. And gets answering machine! She leaves a messages and life goes on.
A couple weeks later she gets a call - from Jacob, the man who placed the ad. They decide to meet up and it's as if they were meant to be.
He moves in quickly and they being their quirky life together. They both deal with the past and the present. Both have "daddy" issues. And they fall in love.
This book has ups and downs, humor and tragedy. And you'll find yourself wanting to hang out with Trixie (as Jacob calls her) and having a crush on Jacob Grace.
humblej's review
4.0
You know, I'm a sucker for a happy ending and this one was definitely tragic. It was beautiful and brought me to tears; who doesn't appreciate a book that actually makes you feel something? I knew this ending was coming from the prologue and there were these anvils of foreshadowing that he would die and the fortune teller was not going to be a fraud in the end. I thought that might happen, that he'd have a near death experience but it'd all work out. It's just very sad that it didn't. I enjoyed the ride. Loved the characters and that's why this gets four stars instead of five for me. Beatrice's story is too unfinished. He died too late in the novel for there to feel like any closure for her at all. She's resigned to going through the rest of life with this God Shaped Hole and that sucks. It may be the morale of the story, that sometimes there is no end to grief but it sucks.
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