Can't believe this book is the last. That this is it. I'm not ready to let go of this world yet
* Beyond tMy most anticipated book of 2021, delivered.
Can't believe this book is the last. That this is it. I'm not ready to let go of this world yet
* Beyond thrilled to be reviewing an early copy of this book! Many thanks to the author Olivia Wildenstein for providing me an ARC of this in exchange for my honest review. *
✨MY REVIEW for Starlight by Olivia Wildenstein:✨
“Whatever happens in there, Naya, it won’t change how I feel about you.” “How do you feel about me?” “Like I’ve been searching for you my entire life.” —Starlight, Olivia Wildenstein
Wow, this book had me on a such rollercoaster ride. I was beyond happy, swooning for our Adam and Naya, and then I was heartbroken, reeling, crying in sad and then happy up to the very last page. UGH!! SO FREAKING GOOD!!!
— I love Naya, she's everything to me. Adam... he's so intense and so like our hero Jarod.
— Both of our main characters are written so well, they may be not the Jarod and Leigh we know but their souls are still the same Jarod and Leigh that we fell in love with. And they are also so them in so many ways that I'm so blown away with how Wildenstein managed to pull this. That was outstanding!
— Asher... oh my god. What. a DILF.
— THE LOVEABLE SIDE CHARACTERS! Oh. My. God. Adam's friends: Noah, Galina, Boone and Levi all deserve their own books and I will die on this hill!!! Just felt like pointing this out because I love them so freaking much!!! Even Emmy and especially Grayson! Badly wish these characters have their own book because I will definitely buy and read them all!! And I just want more Angels of Elysium story, yall I dont want to say bye to this series yet. I can't.
ANYWAYS, this book was excellent! I'm incredibly satisfied and happy with how this ended.
With all that said, this book was such a spectacular and perfect ending to an already perfect series by Olivia Wildenstein. This series has got such a great world building it's unique and original that I'm sad to see it end just here. I felt like there was so much more it can give, has such enormous potential and capable of telling more stories but I understand the author putting the pen down here. I just love the structure of the Angels hierarchy and the challenge of getting to become a fully-fledged Angel here and how each do their jobs. I would live in this world if I could. This was so very well done and very well thought-out unlike from the other stories I've come across, so massive kudos to the author for writing such compelling world-building with a great narrative to boot.
RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 I could not recommend this book series enough for yall IT'S SO, SO GOOD. 5 stars rating for this book, as it deserves....more
Artistically poignant, well-crafted in its poetic narrative unravelling Cash's existential knots within the daily story all throughout his life. ThArtistically poignant, well-crafted in its poetic narrative unravelling Cash's existential knots within the daily story all throughout his life. This book is a must read.
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"Existence becomes the game and the game becomes art. As it is in life." - ch. 16
Blue Graffiti is a coming of age tale that flips between various moments in the life of Cash, a young man from middle of nowhere town called Johnston from the Midwest. Told in the lens of his adult self, we see his memories from childhood to certain moments in his young life - with friends and family and the town of Johnston that shaped him to who he become. Add in the way we readers have the front row seat to his adult self's vivid and heart wrenching stream of emotionally charged thoughts during each events, his way of storytelling comes with such magnificent usage of poignant, stunning in its gloriousness, poetic lyricism that defines this author's unique voice - a sure way of making the readers hooked with every word. A very impressive feat, also, is the way the author masterfully and carefully woven the composition of the narrative, to the characters in Cash's life on the daily from past to present, to the way of how everything builds up towards the end.
The way the author concocted this book - capturing that wonder of great love and the desperation of pursuing it, of joy and heartache you carry from your past and how it just never leaves you as you grow older, and such grief so heavy that it reduced me to tears so. many. times… I am blown away.
She’s looking across the sidewalk, patient and cool through the gentle rain. She’s unphased. And I’m telling you, in the dark of the night and the falling water, painted with a few shades of neon from the bar signs, she is the only story I’d follow. - ch. 32
On the other hand, something to note, this book did exceptionally well, too, in terms of making romance stand in its own against the literary side of the novel. An impressive feat considering rarely do books in literary history has given it the justice it so rightfully deserve.
I have never felt so speechless after reading a book like this in my entire life, ever! So needless to say, Blue Graffiti sure makes it way atop of my list of favorite books of all time! I have been wanting to read something so romantic and heart wrenching, so freeing and hopeful, and just, making me feel everything at the same time! This one has it all! And because it's a debut novel from a new author, I felt lucky to be be able to read this. We know each author's debut is piece of their soul, and I felt Leo Cash's here.
This book was a spiritual experience for me so I highly recommend picking this up! Sure it does have it's flaws, like the way it started slow, (but in a way I kind of see that as what makes this book so unique and likeable? Cash rambles and so what? His rambling is peak literature, and that’s on that) and I think they're just small so I didn’t even mind them at all. And, well! What beauty this book offered makes up for all that it missed, so give it a chance!
Oh lord, it was hard getting into this book for a while because it was a bit repetitivPoppy World Domination
Queen. All I can say is, she IS the Queen!
Oh lord, it was hard getting into this book for a while because it was a bit repetitive. But the plot picks up at around 10% left of the book. 10% made up for what it was lacking in the entirety of the book. This was almost a 3 star rating for me for those reasons but I loved Poppy and what she became at the end of this book.
The end promises an exciting next book. Hopefully it wont be as boring as half of this installment was....more