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A review by filipabooks
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
3.0
How Zach would put it: That really teared me up.
As I started this book, I confess I was expecting nothing less than the simply beautiful Benjamin's writing. I was fast disappointed since what I found was much different. "Last Night I Sang to the Monster" is the story of Zachariah, told with Zach's very own words, changing the tone of the narrative completely from the one we could expect.
However, as much as the first half of the book was hard to get through, beause I wasn't really connecting with this book's essence, it still got to me and my feelings. By the end, I was sad, broken, happy and somehow full of hope and possibility.
I think this book shows you how all of us are capable of change and improvement toward better days and happiness, and how important it's to let people get in, to heal, to help the change, when we're in a bad place.
I think that in such a horrible world and scenario, we saw a lot of love and a lot of beautiful things. And that moved me more than I thought it would.
Also, that ending was such a tight hug after so much pain and confusion.
Again, my heart is full: of love, of beauty, of hope and possibility.
As I started this book, I confess I was expecting nothing less than the simply beautiful Benjamin's writing. I was fast disappointed since what I found was much different. "Last Night I Sang to the Monster" is the story of Zachariah, told with Zach's very own words, changing the tone of the narrative completely from the one we could expect.
However, as much as the first half of the book was hard to get through, beause I wasn't really connecting with this book's essence, it still got to me and my feelings. By the end, I was sad, broken, happy and somehow full of hope and possibility.
I think this book shows you how all of us are capable of change and improvement toward better days and happiness, and how important it's to let people get in, to heal, to help the change, when we're in a bad place.
I think that in such a horrible world and scenario, we saw a lot of love and a lot of beautiful things. And that moved me more than I thought it would.
Also, that ending was such a tight hug after so much pain and confusion.
Again, my heart is full: of love, of beauty, of hope and possibility.