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sh3llr3ads's review
4.0
I can't decide if I found this book incredibly sad or incredibly sweet.
Either way, I really liked it. Freya is a child who dies prematurely. It was an accident. An incredibly sad accident. But the book isn't what you'd expect. It isn't really about the people left behind that have to deal with a child death. It's not even about the reader dealing with it. It's about Freya coming to terms with her own fate.
After she dies, Freya ends up in heaven, or more of an in between place before heaven. It is what she makes it. And she makes it a beautiful garden, perfect for watching what's going on down with her family. Along with her guide, who has his own tragic story, she watches them as they try to put their lives back together and move on.
Freya is a sweet child with a profound view of things, but she misses her family. My heart hurt as she tried again and again to get them to see her, or just imagine she was there.
It's a beautiful book that felt very slow at times, but makes you really think. It stays with you. Death is hard, made even harder when it's a child. That's a subject that is very complicated to deal with, but here it is done with a grace and a sweetness that I for one really liked.
Either way, I really liked it. Freya is a child who dies prematurely. It was an accident. An incredibly sad accident. But the book isn't what you'd expect. It isn't really about the people left behind that have to deal with a child death. It's not even about the reader dealing with it. It's about Freya coming to terms with her own fate.
After she dies, Freya ends up in heaven, or more of an in between place before heaven. It is what she makes it. And she makes it a beautiful garden, perfect for watching what's going on down with her family. Along with her guide, who has his own tragic story, she watches them as they try to put their lives back together and move on.
Freya is a sweet child with a profound view of things, but she misses her family. My heart hurt as she tried again and again to get them to see her, or just imagine she was there.
It's a beautiful book that felt very slow at times, but makes you really think. It stays with you. Death is hard, made even harder when it's a child. That's a subject that is very complicated to deal with, but here it is done with a grace and a sweetness that I for one really liked.