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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
sad
fast-paced
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.5 Stars
First off, I believe this should have been an epilogue chapter as opposed to an entirely new book. But I guess maybe a little too long for that.
This story picked up 17 years after the death of Christian, Elena, Bethany and Elliott. That book needed this novella so much and as a reader I appreciate the author giving it to us. We watch a 21 year old Caroline visit her parents graves on the anniversary of their deaths. The one-sided conversation she had with them highlighting her life revealed such a level of love that impacted her as a small child. The love Christian and Elena poured into her in such a short time. It made me as the reader hurt for her.
As she journeyed back to the home that was once her home; a place of love she experienced with her parents, we experience Caroline finding perspective as to why Christian could not stay once Elena was killed. Her coming to terms with that was just as painful for me but I was happy for her. How even in death her father provided one last time for his daughter was everything. He planned ahead and ensured that if he wasn't alive then his two girls would be comfortable and taken care of. As it is, there was only one remaining. His daughter.
Caroline was on the beginning of a relationship. I loved that for her. What I hated? Was how horrid her Uncle, Elena's brother, was about everything. He hated Christian and placed all blame on him without even allowing ownership of it all to be placed where it was due -- on his father Elliott. Her Uncle made it not feel safe for her to grieve her parents or love them. Which in the end tore their relationship apart - I really hated that and hoped for reconciliation but there was none.
We watch our Caroline sit with her parents at the grave and eat pancakes. Such a pivotal, loud moment for her considering what pancakes incited prior to that. Her healing started in that moment and we were able to release her as she and the reader was gifted closure.
I am still gutted over this book and have not been able to stop thinking of Christian and Elena. Desperately wish it ended differently.
First off, I believe this should have been an epilogue chapter as opposed to an entirely new book. But I guess maybe a little too long for that.
This story picked up 17 years after the death of Christian, Elena, Bethany and Elliott. That book needed this novella so much and as a reader I appreciate the author giving it to us. We watch a 21 year old Caroline visit her parents graves on the anniversary of their deaths. The one-sided conversation she had with them highlighting her life revealed such a level of love that impacted her as a small child. The love Christian and Elena poured into her in such a short time. It made me as the reader hurt for her.
As she journeyed back to the home that was once her home; a place of love she experienced with her parents, we experience Caroline finding perspective as to why Christian could not stay once Elena was killed. Her coming to terms with that was just as painful for me but I was happy for her. How even in death her father provided one last time for his daughter was everything. He planned ahead and ensured that if he wasn't alive then his two girls would be comfortable and taken care of. As it is, there was only one remaining. His daughter.
Caroline was on the beginning of a relationship. I loved that for her. What I hated? Was how horrid her Uncle, Elena's brother, was about everything. He hated Christian and placed all blame on him without even allowing ownership of it all to be placed where it was due -- on his father Elliott. Her Uncle made it not feel safe for her to grieve her parents or love them. Which in the end tore their relationship apart - I really hated that and hoped for reconciliation but there was none.
We watch our Caroline sit with her parents at the grave and eat pancakes. Such a pivotal, loud moment for her considering what pancakes incited prior to that. Her healing started in that moment and we were able to release her as she and the reader was gifted closure.
I am still gutted over this book and have not been able to stop thinking of Christian and Elena. Desperately wish it ended differently.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Read immediately after Under your scars for some sort of closure