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Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao

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4.0

Very magical; excellent worldbuilding. The relationship is not quite slow burn enough for me, which I think impacted the depth of the emotion and thus the depth of emotion certain events made me feel - I feel like I should have cried, but didn't get the urge at all really. Beautiful, though, and I'd definitely recommend and read something else by this author in the future, too.

I highly recommend looking up what a neutrino detector tank looks like as it's an important and beautiful scenery but not explained all that clearly. Also, it's just kind of cool.

Some of my favourite quotes below (mild spoilers, beware - especially the second quote(!) I have covered obvious spoilers, but the second quote especially may make things click into place faster re: some aspects of the story than if you hadn't already read the quote!):

...life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from and where you are going. I may never get to where I want to go, but I can look back on my life and say that I did not waste a second of it being bitter that I was not someplace else. Happiness does not exist in a place. It lives in every breath we take. You need to choose to take it in, over and over again.

"...Our world buries babies like Haruto alive because we are afraid that we cannot control them.
We bury them because they are different and then wonder why they become monsters. And then when the mosters - our fears - grow up..."
"They come back to control us," Hana said.

His father had once told him that there was only one measure of how well a person spent his day. It depended on how much of the day you spent pining for the future or regretting your past. 

Spoilery summary for my reference:

An astrophysicist looking for purpose and belonging stumbles into the pawnshop of a woman whose whole life is mapped out for her. Except that her father has faked a burglary to search for her mother who stole a choice (read: soul) when the pawnshop daughter was born. The mother who is supposed to be dead. Not so willing to let go of this chance for purpose, the astrophysicist accompanies the pawnshop daughter on a search for her father, hunted down by the grown up versions of soulless children.
 

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