gay love transcending time and space

"Dearest Joe, come home, if you remember" might just turn me feral
emotional reflective relaxing tense medium-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

"...in my head, you're so pristine. I just wanted to not get anything on you." // "I think you're the same thing in three different lights."

If anyone needs I will be screaming about Nataha Pulley from the top of a lighthouse. This was action fuelled and jam packed with plot while also being character driven and slow to the point of the anticipation crawling in so carefully you didn't realize how invested you were in everyone until their lives were in mortal peril ( dozens of times).

Every character - even the short lived ones- are so well written that you can't help but immediately understand and feel for them.

I would lay my life on the line for Kite. Everyone needs a hug and about 900 days of rest.

The writing - in particular the way she writes the characters physically existing beside each other is so well done. I highly suggest going in with no understanding of what's going on and being okay with being confused for a bit - it's well worth it.

My first Natasha Pulley book and absolutely not my last - as soon as the mail arrives.

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adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The fact that I put “it’s complicated” as an answer to most of the questions already says something.
Wow. This book. I was confused 80% of the time but I’m so happy I finished it.
It feels like I’ve read 4 books instead of one.
I didn’t like joe tournier very much
and he was so different from jem that it’s hard to imagine they’re the same person, but ig that’s kind of the point since they aren’t the same person, not really.

I did love kite for some reason.
except that he murdered a child excuse me what was that????? But the way he described jem I just

And the HUGS so many hugs I needed that I love that there’s so much hugging in this book
I didn’t really like to read about the war and everything and at some points the story was a bit boring but for some reason I felt the urge to keep reading so it was captivating 
The ending was well done in my opinion.
Hmmmmmmm when I started this book I thought I wouldn’t rate it very high but now that I can look back I think it’s a really cool book with the kind of romance that I like (I didn’t cry though, even though it was very sad. I think that if I’d been as invested at the beginning as at the end I would’ve been more attached to the characters and thought it was sadder, but oh well) and a lot of other good points soooo
Butttt the “omg this will be such a surprise” things were a bit predictable (like I guessed (correctly) from the start who jem was, who the letter was from and who the man by the sea was.) 
adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
Loveable characters: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

'Like I say, it's just déjà vu. I have hallucinations too. A lighthouse. Having dinner on an old ship.' He sighed. 'A man who waits by the sea. I mean it's clear, very clear. I can see him skipping stones.'

Reread November 3, 2022

‘You’re a ghost too, aren’t you?’
Kite knelt down next to him. ‘Yes and no,’ he said. ‘Can I tell you in the morning?’
Joe agreed and sank back to sleep, thinking unhappily that whatever kind of ghost he was, he was at least a polite one.
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous emotional mysterious
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes