A review by l4uraaa
Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.75

“belief was a funny thing, foreign to logic”

“God above, you’re beautiful,’ he breathed.
         ‘You don’t believe in God,’ I reminded him, my voice low.
         ‘Right now, I think I just might.”

“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert”

““This sounds like a terrible idea, given how many sins I have.’
         ‘We should get going then,’ Jin said, clapping Sam on the back jovially. ‘You can count them on the way.”
         In the desert, the boy would never be nameless again”

“The stories might tell that we loved each other. But the stories would never remember what that felt like. They would never know that when we lay together in his tent the night before we died, he traced the small scar along my collarbone. That when he kissed me, he smiled against my mouth. Or what it sounded like when he said my name. We contained our own stories. A thousand tiny parts of the story would die with us”

“He didn’t believe in heavens or hells or worlds after. Just in this world. Just in now”
“And I think that the dust that was me will spend until the end of time trying to get as close as possible to the dust that was you out in that vast desert.”

“long after our deaths, men and women sitting around a fire would hear that once, long ago, before we were all just stories, we lived”

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