UGH! 3% in and I don't want to keep reading. But I do because I want to know how this all goes.
Those are the words I wrote to Erin at 2:40 this afternoon. It is now 1 am and I just finished Beyond the Orange Moon. This is probably one of the most beautiful stories I’ve read. The prologue broke my heart. Truly, utterly heartbroken. As you can see, I didn’t want to keep reading. But I knew this was going someplace. And that place was beautiful.
Without giving the story away, this is a book about loss and love. The lowest of lows and the highest of highs. The prologue will wreck you. The body of the book will build you back up. The epilogue will make you soar. It comes full circle. The journey that I took with the characters had me crying and laughing.
I was able to review Under the Orange Moon back in March. The characters you read about in Beyond the Orange Moon are part of Under the Orange Moon. And for that reason, I don’t feel right telling you what happens. I haven’t read the synopsis. I usually don’t. So I’m not quite sure what you learn from that. But as a reader, I won’t tell you what happens. You need to have these feelings in real time. As you read this book.
I think the best thing about this book is that Adrienne Francis did a beautiful job on a very hard story. I applaud her on breaking my heart 3% into the book. I know that’s a really odd thing to praise an author about, but to me, it shows how great the author is. If you can break a reader’s heart right off in the beginning, good for you. But what’s even better, she repaired my broken heart by the end. There is nothing in this book I would add or take away. It’s absolutely perfect.
~Katie
Those are the words I wrote to Erin at 2:40 this afternoon. It is now 1 am and I just finished Beyond the Orange Moon. This is probably one of the most beautiful stories I’ve read. The prologue broke my heart. Truly, utterly heartbroken. As you can see, I didn’t want to keep reading. But I knew this was going someplace. And that place was beautiful.
Without giving the story away, this is a book about loss and love. The lowest of lows and the highest of highs. The prologue will wreck you. The body of the book will build you back up. The epilogue will make you soar. It comes full circle. The journey that I took with the characters had me crying and laughing.
I was able to review Under the Orange Moon back in March. The characters you read about in Beyond the Orange Moon are part of Under the Orange Moon. And for that reason, I don’t feel right telling you what happens. I haven’t read the synopsis. I usually don’t. So I’m not quite sure what you learn from that. But as a reader, I won’t tell you what happens. You need to have these feelings in real time. As you read this book.
I think the best thing about this book is that Adrienne Francis did a beautiful job on a very hard story. I applaud her on breaking my heart 3% into the book. I know that’s a really odd thing to praise an author about, but to me, it shows how great the author is. If you can break a reader’s heart right off in the beginning, good for you. But what’s even better, she repaired my broken heart by the end. There is nothing in this book I would add or take away. It’s absolutely perfect.
~Katie