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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
I don't know what I just read but this was awesome! I mean, mindfuck of hell. I swear my brain bent sideways but I just love you more for it, Mia. You had guts and heart to put this out and I can say that, for me, this is totally worth the angst, the frustration and the minor panic attacks.
This is definetly not a read for everyonebut being that I've lived and dealt with people with mental health problems all my life and I, myself, have cronic depression, I loved it.
My only real problem with this book is at the last third of it whenthey stop talking about going to have a healthy long-term psychological treatment for them as a couple. It's already a very hard place to be with all of society's misconstructs and negativity towards the prescription of drugs for long-tem treatments. I can't point this out enough, we need all the help we can get. For some of us, healthy living and exercizes is just not enough. Sometimes our body just doesn't produce or process things right, and for us to live a fulfilling, happy life, we need the exercize, the healthy habits, the psychologist sessions AND the drugs. I know it's not just something that is lacking in this book but in most novels which are beginning to address these issues. We will get there people! I have faith!
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This is definetly not a read for everyone
My only real problem with this book is at the last third of it when
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I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
DISCLAIMER: I am going to do my best to make this review spoiler/detail free because you really should go into this book blind...just like I did. But I will say this:
GO BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW.
You won't be disappointed.
This is a story about two people who find each other. Two lost souls who find their other half. They understand each other. They heal each other. They love each other with everything they have. Their love is so pure and beautiful that it brought me to tears multiple times.
I reread a lot of this book as I was reading it. I reread parts to make sure I read what I just read.I reread parts of it because my tears will mad things blurry. And I reread parts of it because it was just so darn good. And once you are done, you will go back and want to reread the whole thing because...well because of reasons. ;-)
This series is so amazing. The books just keep getting better and better. Each one is unique and brings us on a journey that we don't want to end. And I can't wait to see what she gives us next.
DISCLAIMER: I am going to do my best to make this review spoiler/detail free because you really should go into this book blind...just like I did. But I will say this:
GO BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW.
You won't be disappointed.
This is a story about two people who find each other. Two lost souls who find their other half. They understand each other. They heal each other. They love each other with everything they have. Their love is so pure and beautiful that it brought me to tears multiple times.
I reread a lot of this book as I was reading it. I reread parts to make sure I read what I just read.I reread parts of it because my tears will mad things blurry. And I reread parts of it because it was just so darn good. And once you are done, you will go back and want to reread the whole thing because...well because of reasons. ;-)
This series is so amazing. The books just keep getting better and better. Each one is unique and brings us on a journey that we don't want to end. And I can't wait to see what she gives us next.
“We don’t get to choose what we carry, but we do get to choose the grace with which we carry it.”
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THE REVIEW
I never thought the day would come where I’d rate a novel by my beloved Mia Sheridan with a mere two stars – but here I am, doing exactly that. Trust me when I say this is not a decision I have made lightly. I even considered bumping it up to three stars, just because rating one of her novels so low feels so wrong – but that would have been completely unfair… So here I am. Giving Mia Sheridan two stars. It’s cool. It’s okay. I’m okay.
(I’m not okay.)
Mia Sheridan is one of a handful of authors whose work I will purchase without a second thought. I’ve devoured every single one of her novels, and I’ve been quite deeply emotionally affected by all of them. None of her books are the same – each having its own unique and captivating premise. In fact, the only thing that all Mia Sheridan novels have in common is that they all tell such beautiful and genuinely touching stories of realistic, broken people finding love in the most unexpected and – often – darkest of places.
On top of all of this, Mia’s writing style is just incredible. It flows beautifully, and often has an almost poetic quality about it – just an absolute joy to read, really.
All of this stood true in Midnight Lily. I was still really quite profoundly affected by the issues dealt with in this novel, it still had a very unique plot, it was still a story of love, and Mia’s writing was just as lovely as always…
So what was the problem, then?
Well…
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Unfortunately, it’s very difficult to talk about Midnight Lily in any sort of detail without revealing significant spoilers, so I’m going to have to be incredibly vague when I explain my reasons for failing to love this book anywhere near as much as I’ve loved every other piece of writing this ridiculously talented woman has produced.
Midnight Lily is quite a departure from Mia’s usual work and, I’m sorry to say, but it just didn’t work for me. At all.
The twists and turns that this novel took required a certain level of vagueness when it came to the characters, and to the entire plot, really. I found this very interesting over the course of the first few chapters. Everything was rather mysterious, and I really couldn’t decide which way things were going to go. I did find it difficult to connect with Holden and Lily from the off-set, but I put that down to the deliberate vagueness that, at the time, felt like a deliberate decision made by Mia to maintain this sense of the unknown that hung over everything going on.
However, as the novel progressed, and as I learned more about these two characters, I still couldn’t feel a connection with any of them – and that really cheapened their story, for me. I just couldn’t feel the chemistry between them in the same way that I’ve felt it in Mia’s other works, and that made it really difficult to believe in their love.
And that sense of mystery that intrigued me so early on? Well, don’t get me wrong, this novel took some very surprising turns, and some of them were really interesting to read… But, honestly, it just didn’t live up to its full potential. The revelations were often confusing and somewhat ridiculous, when they could have been so much more than that.
And then that final plot twist… Well, that just ruined any sort of belief I had in anything, really. I actually finished Midnight Lily feeling quite annoyed! I was pretty confused about what had happened and, even after taking a while to think about it all, the only conclusion I came to was that I’d been pretty much cheated.
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Like I said before, it’s really difficult to talk about this one without ruining it for potential readers, so I’m going to have to leave it at that, really. I feel like the premise for this book could have had so much potential, but it just wasn’t executed in the best way. The twists and turns seemed to be in all the wrong places (especially the one at the end) and this resulted in the book feeling messy and very, very rushed towards the conclusion.
It really does pain me to award this novel such a low rating, but I just don’t feel satisfied enough by my reading experience to rate it any higher. Don’t get me wrong – Mia Sheridan is still a one-click purchase sort of author for me. I just hope that her next novel doesn’t leave me with the awful sense of disappointment that Midnight Lily has.
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“There’s always someone society chooses not to see. There’s always someone who is invisible through no fault of their own.”