A review by inuyasha
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

3.0

picked this up because the title and first paragraph of this are so captivating and i immediately thought it would emotionally resonate - and to be fair, it did! the first few chapters and the final piecce (+ a few pretty lines in the in-between) felt like a sucker punch to the gut. although i did have a feeling of - if i were not actively grieving in my personal life at this moment, would i still be affected this way? and i'm not sure the answer is yes. had a pretty consistent issue of telling you the emotion at hand rather than just letting it come to you - and at a few points the author pretty explicitly tells the thesis ("the hunger is the grief") to you which took me out of it a little.

anyway. i'm sad. but i am made up of everyone and everything i've loved and when there is nothing much left of me, there will still be that.