Jun 16, 2020
Perhaps this heat isn’t a penance I am meant to suffer. Perhaps it is a gift, each drop of sweat the Angel’s kiss, sweetly progressing down the length of my spine.
Leslye Walton, the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender
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Perhaps this heat isn’t a penance I am meant to suffer. Perhaps it is a gift, each drop of sweat the Angel’s kiss, sweetly progressing down the length of my spine.
Leslye Walton, the strange and beautiful sorrows of ava lavender
Merlin Reads: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Lesley Walton
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TRIGGER WARNING: rape, murder, suicide, other forms of violence (especially against women), teenage pregnancy & non-physical abuse.
WHAT INTRIGUED ME: The fact that I've been hearing about this book for forever.
WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER: The writing was simply spectacular. It was immersive and gorgeous and I was amazed. I loved how she went into so much detail, especially with everyone's history. Another thing that I appreciated was the characters. They were so unique and so different from each other. I also really loved that even though it was sad throughout the book the characters were happy towards the end.
WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE ABOUT THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER: Literally all of the men, except for Gabe. I liked most of the women and I liked the boys, but all of the men were huge jerks.
Would I recommend? Yes, but be forewarned. It is devastatingly sad.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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“Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.”
“I found it ironic that I should be blessed with wings and yet feel so constrained, so trapped. It was because of my condition, I believe, that I noticed life's ironies a bit more often than the average person. I collected them: how love arrived when you least expected it, how someone who said he didn't want to hurt you eventually would.”
A n d that might just be the root of the problem: we're all afraid of each other, w i n g s o r n o w i n g s
But this. This didn’t make any sense; when she tried to envision her life without Jack or his without her, all she could think of were platypuses. What was a platypus but a kind of duck with fur? The whole idea of it was ridiculous and wrong.
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
The theater smelled like fresh paint and new carpeting, like expectation and hope.
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
As he rose to leave, Jack was crushed by the realization that while his father considered himself to be a great man, in his father’s eyes the best Jack could ever hope to be was useful.
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton