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thebookjunkee 's review for:
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
by Josie Silver
3.5 Stars
"'Because people do, don't they, no one stays the same forever. Everything is just so fragile, isn't it? We make our decisions dependent on the day, the weather, our mood, the phases of the moon, what we had for breakfast...I can't keep questioning choices I may or may not have made, blaming myself for being too soft and too hard here. I see now that I've been walking in circles, making crazy patterns.' I stop and draw a breath. "I need to walk in a straight line, Petar."
Lydia and Freddie were together for over a decade. When tragedy strikes and Freddie dies in a car accident, Lydia is left with the pieces of what would have been. She knows that Freddie would want more for her life, and to move forward - with the help of his best friend Jonah, her sister Elle, she tries to grasp her new reality. But to her disbelief, something happens and she has another chance at life with Freddie. Lydia is conflicted, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there's an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie is alive because he still owns her heart. But there's someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay. Lydia makes the heartbreaking decision that no one saw coming, and realizing that sometimes it's you that needs to make yourself happy in the end.
After reading "One Day in December", I had to get my hands on another book by Josie Silver. I know "Two Lives" was highly recommended and although she did an amazing job describing the level of grief one goes through after someone you love dies, there really was no plot. I enjoyed more of the "awake" scenes than I did of the "asleep" ones. I had a feeling the ending was going to happen about a 1/3 of the way in the book. I was happy to see that she was able to find happiness after everything she had been through. The story in a nutshell depicted grief, coping and learning to love again perfectly.
I put together a playlist that Josie had in the back of the book if anyone would like to follow!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Httu2CQPZYE9TLeOk00up?si=b0ee41e967b24c51
"'Because people do, don't they, no one stays the same forever. Everything is just so fragile, isn't it? We make our decisions dependent on the day, the weather, our mood, the phases of the moon, what we had for breakfast...I can't keep questioning choices I may or may not have made, blaming myself for being too soft and too hard here. I see now that I've been walking in circles, making crazy patterns.' I stop and draw a breath. "I need to walk in a straight line, Petar."
Lydia and Freddie were together for over a decade. When tragedy strikes and Freddie dies in a car accident, Lydia is left with the pieces of what would have been. She knows that Freddie would want more for her life, and to move forward - with the help of his best friend Jonah, her sister Elle, she tries to grasp her new reality. But to her disbelief, something happens and she has another chance at life with Freddie. Lydia is conflicted, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there's an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie is alive because he still owns her heart. But there's someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay. Lydia makes the heartbreaking decision that no one saw coming, and realizing that sometimes it's you that needs to make yourself happy in the end.
After reading "One Day in December", I had to get my hands on another book by Josie Silver. I know "Two Lives" was highly recommended and although she did an amazing job describing the level of grief one goes through after someone you love dies, there really was no plot. I enjoyed more of the "awake" scenes than I did of the "asleep" ones. I had a feeling the ending was going to happen about a 1/3 of the way in the book. I was happy to see that she was able to find happiness after everything she had been through. The story in a nutshell depicted grief, coping and learning to love again perfectly.
I put together a playlist that Josie had in the back of the book if anyone would like to follow!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Httu2CQPZYE9TLeOk00up?si=b0ee41e967b24c51