This book was in a word, "delightful" from beginning to end. Though I have never been married, let alone widowed, Sophie Stanton seemed like such an honest, real world, and in my opinion healthy depiction of what losing a significant other would look like. I know there are people out there who have no problem weathering any storm, these people are the solid ground on which we stand in the middle of a crises. In my most heroic fantasies I'd like to imagine that I'd be that person when experiencing the loss of my loved one. That I would stand strong, make my loved one proud as they look down on me from the great beyond. I'd rise to every challenge and come out stronger in the end, blah, blah, blah... The truth is (much like Sophie Stanton), I would probably be a hot mess...if it was someone I was really close to.

I was reading another book review recently, (forgive me, I don't remember who the fellow book enthusiast was) and she said that, sometimes the books that are really good are the hardest to review.  I find that I agree with her 110%.  This book was, in a word... lovely.  I was drawn in by it's insouciant southern charm, and it's quirky fun-loving characters, (and ya'll know I love me some quirky).

For those of you who've read my previous posts... you know how much I loved Jojo Moyes' "Me Before You", so when I found out there was a continuation to the story I was some what apprehensive. In all actuality I was terrified; I straight up avoided the thing. At the end of "Me Before You" we were left with a bittersweet sense of hope. Yes Will had died, and yes I cried myself to sleep, but there was still a chance for Clark. Her eyes had been opened to a whole new, big world, and she was setting out to conquer it. All of this is good, yes?

I would classify this book as an enigma wrapped in a conundrum. It's one of those books that shouldn't be good, but it ends up being fantastic even though it's flawed beyond all reason. It's like the magic from the story jumped off of the page and whammied me, cruelly tricking me into loving it while also despising it, because the whole damn thing is nonsensical.

So Let me just come out guns blazing and say that this book is completely fantastic; it took my breath away, and quite possibly changed my life.