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A review by lneff514
Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith
5.0
So beautiful. It only took reading one sentence* in a book review to make me buy this book... and I'm so glad I bought it. Beautiful writing - different metaphors that were lovely and unexpected, but not drippy-sweet.
It did have a lot more profanity and sexual content than I expected. But, it was not over the top.
And, I cried my eyes out at the end. Always a good thing, in my mind! :)
*"I was a widow - a word so ghostly and hollow, a word that should've been a palindrome but wasn't, those w's with their arms stretched wide, begging for mercy."
...I mean, COME ON. I will (almost daily) whisper that sentence to myself and just sigh at the power and beauty of it.
It did have a lot more profanity and sexual content than I expected. But, it was not over the top.
And, I cried my eyes out at the end. Always a good thing, in my mind! :)
*"I was a widow - a word so ghostly and hollow, a word that should've been a palindrome but wasn't, those w's with their arms stretched wide, begging for mercy."
...I mean, COME ON. I will (almost daily) whisper that sentence to myself and just sigh at the power and beauty of it.