ninabubblygum 's review for:

Invitation to the Blues by Roan Parrish

4.25

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“I felt so loved.”
I could feel Faron hear it. His arms tightened around me convulsively and his breath caught. I started really crying, and the harder I cried, the closer he held me. I cried because somehow I had landed somewhere I wanted to be and I realized perhaps it was the first time I’d wanted to be somewhere. I cried because I finally knew what it felt like to love someone more than I hated myself.

these two are so sweet together, i love them. jude's journey was sad and realistic and it's refreshing to read a book about depression where they aren't magically cured just because they fell in love.

i love the caretaking and how affectionate they are and i loved their comfortable silence and how they could just exist in the same space so sweetly without always interacting.

“Since we were talking about skin color. You’re all the colors of a sunset. And I’m gonna paint the fuck out of you.”