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

dark funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes

a reflective read that remains cohesive despite a fragmentary and ruminative (yet overwhelmingly beautiful) literary style. our protagonist's voice cuts through with such forlorn clarity — a clarity that fashions you into a kind of companion, wandering through that disoriented wasteland spent hung between life and death; dream and reality. reality that plays out like a dream. only ever referred to as 'you', the lover is a role almost projected onto the reader: you want to comfort your narrator, but, unable to reach her, can only bear invisible witness from another state of existence. in many ways, a piece on unbearable separation — from both others and the self.

enjoyable, contemplative, bizarre in the best of ways, and emotionally affecting; though, not without a welcome streak of the darkly comic.