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A review by soulofsam
In the Silence by Jaimie Leigh McGovern
5.0
This book is a pure feel-good book.
It's long and it's in the second person and those are two things that make reading hard for me, but this book is so worth it and I still finished it.
Why? Because it's comforting.
The whole time while reading I was waiting, waiting for the inevidable bad thing to happen, because in a sapphic love story there ALWAYS happens something bad. Shows and movies have conditioned me to expect the hurt and the pain and the probably not happy ending. But it didn't happen and that is why this book will forever be one of my favorite love stories. For the first time I saw before me the possibility of everything being fine, of having the live straight people always get to have and gay people never get to have. It was right there, on these pages and I didn't realize how much I needed to read this until I did, how much I needed everything to just be okay and happy for once.
This book is a slow read, there is no action and no twist and turns, so if that is what you enjoy you won't love this book. If you want a love story that just makes you HAPPY and makes you feel safe and comforted and presents a promise of a peaceful life you will love this.
It's long and it's in the second person and those are two things that make reading hard for me, but this book is so worth it and I still finished it.
Why? Because it's comforting.
The whole time while reading I was waiting, waiting for the inevidable bad thing to happen, because in a sapphic love story there ALWAYS happens something bad. Shows and movies have conditioned me to expect the hurt and the pain and the probably not happy ending. But it didn't happen and that is why this book will forever be one of my favorite love stories. For the first time I saw before me the possibility of everything being fine, of having the live straight people always get to have and gay people never get to have. It was right there, on these pages and I didn't realize how much I needed to read this until I did, how much I needed everything to just be okay and happy for once.
This book is a slow read, there is no action and no twist and turns, so if that is what you enjoy you won't love this book. If you want a love story that just makes you HAPPY and makes you feel safe and comforted and presents a promise of a peaceful life you will love this.