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Average rating4.1
June O'Donnell a.k.a. Junior, a.k.a. Jack, a.k.a. Jonathan O'Donnell IV, a.k.a. the first female O'Donnell first-born has always been haunted by her family's mythic but complicated legacy. As she prepares to begin her final year of high school, June is itching to leave behind her ghosts in Five Fingers, Michigan, and travel the world.
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𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐠. 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝.
My soul is destroyed.
If you could only see see the amount of markers I placed down 🥲 If you asked me now, 50% of those pages should be all considered works of art all on their own.
I don't think I can choose a favorite quote or moment because each of them feel so special in the grand scheme of the story... I mean, thats the point of the book, isn't it? Every moment is special on it's own and it deserves to be remembered ❤️
What surprised me is that the story itself doesn't really move forward that much, it feels like it takes place in such little time, but all those memories make it feel like you are moving backwards while still slowly crawling forward.
I have to say I was lost almost all the way till the end, because you don't get much explanation on to how all the magic happens and I am a need-to-know kind of person. But that didn't take any of the magic out of the story.
If you like sad books with happy endings, romances that happen to be fiction, and quotes that make you reconsider your way of living? This is your book 🍒
PS: Please do tell me where I can find a Saul, because I need someone like him in my life, thank you.
I really loved this book. The last chapter left me with tears in my eyes. I'm going to have to read it much more slowly in about a month or two soo I can soak up everything. Also, it really reminded me of Strange the Dreamer.
Loving this book also highlights something I've been trying so hard to avoid. I need to stop reading predominantly romance novels. Of the books I've read this year, I have enjoyed most that ones that aren't pure romance. But for so long romance is all I read and a part of me doesn't want to let that go.
Didn't grip me, couldn't connect with the characters or the lore. Sort of magical realism, sort of romance, sort of wimsy, not enough of either.
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