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A review by djkirsikirs
The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk
3.0
It took a while for me to get into this book and begin to care about the characters because for the first half of the book they aren't really doing anything except being terribly depressed. I almost DNFed this book halfway through, but I'm glad I didn't because once the characters stopped sitting around and being sad and actually did things to help themselves it was an enjoyable book.
I think the big problem with the story is that it starts in the wrong place. For the first part of the book we're reading about characters that are deeply hurting but there's really no reason to care about them because we don't know them. I would have liked to have seen more flashbacks or exposition in the first few chapters so that I could understand who Bram, Tavi, and Sasha were and thus better felt the grief that Logan, Shay, Autumn, and their loved ones were going through.
Like I said before, once I actually got to know the narrators and they started to really acknowledge their grief and take charge of it the story really picked up and I felt more invested. By the end of the story I really related to all three of them and was rooting for them, I just wish I could have gotten there sooner. That being said, this is a very well written book and the way Ashley Woodfolk describes the process of going through grief and loss is well done.
I think the big problem with the story is that it starts in the wrong place. For the first part of the book we're reading about characters that are deeply hurting but there's really no reason to care about them because we don't know them. I would have liked to have seen more flashbacks or exposition in the first few chapters so that I could understand who Bram, Tavi, and Sasha were and thus better felt the grief that Logan, Shay, Autumn, and their loved ones were going through.
Like I said before, once I actually got to know the narrators and they started to really acknowledge their grief and take charge of it the story really picked up and I felt more invested. By the end of the story I really related to all three of them and was rooting for them, I just wish I could have gotten there sooner. That being said, this is a very well written book and the way Ashley Woodfolk describes the process of going through grief and loss is well done.