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A review by snakeyghost
The Last Kiss by Sally Malcolm
5.0
5 “You and I, who we are, what we are, changes the world” stars
”You make me so bloody happy I can hardly stand it. And I’m sorry I was a coward. I’m sorry I hurt you. I never want to hurt you again because I love you. I love you so much and, if you’ll have me, I want to be with you for as long as this blasted world will let us be together.”
Actual review to come soon as i’m still crying my eyes out over this book. But for now I have a comment to say to this book:
I have loved the books by Sally Malcolm I have read previously so I knew I would enjoy this one but I was already a sobbing mess after the first chapter of this book. And I barely stopped crying during the entire book. This book totally broke me, but it also put me back together and made me feel better. This was everything I wanted in a book and I adored it. I also love a good hard fought romance and god was this one hard faught, it was painful but it was so worth it.
Brief summary
The book starts in 1917 when Harry and Ash fall in love while serving for their country during world war I. They are separated after that but they keep communicating by letters and Harry goes to visit Ash on his family’s estate and Harry starts to work on the estate to provide for his own family. They start to sneak around and spend all the time they can together but it’s complicated for them between their obligations to their family and the need to marry a woman to hide the fact that they are gay.
This book was fucking realistic to how I would imagined life to be in 1919. And while I adored that the book was so realistic in its approach it so painful to read because of it. This book was so gritty and emotional but in a good way. It did shatter my entire heart but it gave me an HEA so thats all I could have asked for and more. There is a lot of drama coming from characters outside of the main couple in this book and thats not something I normally enjoy but given that this book is set in the 1910s, I could understand it and none of it felt gratious. It was realistic to what I imagine life would have been for gay men in the 1910s so it totally worked for me.
”You make me so bloody happy I can hardly stand it. And I’m sorry I was a coward. I’m sorry I hurt you. I never want to hurt you again because I love you. I love you so much and, if you’ll have me, I want to be with you for as long as this blasted world will let us be together.”
Actual review to come soon as i’m still crying my eyes out over this book. But for now I have a comment to say to this book:
I have loved the books by Sally Malcolm I have read previously so I knew I would enjoy this one but I was already a sobbing mess after the first chapter of this book. And I barely stopped crying during the entire book. This book totally broke me, but it also put me back together and made me feel better. This was everything I wanted in a book and I adored it. I also love a good hard fought romance and god was this one hard faught, it was painful but it was so worth it.
Brief summary
The book starts in 1917 when Harry and Ash fall in love while serving for their country during world war I. They are separated after that but they keep communicating by letters and Harry goes to visit Ash on his family’s estate and Harry starts to work on the estate to provide for his own family. They start to sneak around and spend all the time they can together but it’s complicated for them between their obligations to their family and the need to marry a woman to hide the fact that they are gay.
This book was fucking realistic to how I would imagined life to be in 1919. And while I adored that the book was so realistic in its approach it so painful to read because of it. This book was so gritty and emotional but in a good way. It did shatter my entire heart but it gave me an HEA so thats all I could have asked for and more. There is a lot of drama coming from characters outside of the main couple in this book and thats not something I normally enjoy but given that this book is set in the 1910s, I could understand it and none of it felt gratious. It was realistic to what I imagine life would have been for gay men in the 1910s so it totally worked for me.