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Lie with Me
by Philippe Besson
This is genuine, inexplicable pain. I knew going into this book that it would hurt and that i would most likely cry… What i did not know is that this books is going to stay with me for a while to come. I ugly cried at this book, with loud sobs and so many tears falling onto the pages that the page almost ripped because I tried to annotate it with a pen afterwards.
At the start of this book, I knew i was going to like it, because regardless of the plot and story, the writing, the analogies, and the descriptions were so incredibly poetic and beautiful that I would have been enamoured anyway. Half way through the book I still didn’t know where this was going. It was heartbreaking enough because i was so mad at thomas, and felt so much sympathy for the narrator… but then lucas… lucas and their interaction made me feel so hollow. and then the ending part came, and it shattered my heart completely. the emotion conveyed and the way it is written absolutely destroyed me. I didn’t see this coming and nothing could have prepared me for it.
Regardless of my clear heartbreak though, this was a beautiful story. The whole book felt like a slow heart wrenching song. Even the parts that weren’t about the two of them, were about them, and every page felt like it was oozing this sorrow that made your heart beat with agony. The writing was heartbreaking. It felt detached and yet somehow so personal and intimate. It was perfect. I have nothing to say other than wow. This is going to stay with me. This is now a favourite. What an incredible story.
At the start of this book, I knew i was going to like it, because regardless of the plot and story, the writing, the analogies, and the descriptions were so incredibly poetic and beautiful that I would have been enamoured anyway. Half way through the book I still didn’t know where this was going. It was heartbreaking enough because i was so mad at thomas, and felt so much sympathy for the narrator… but then lucas… lucas and their interaction made me feel so hollow. and then the ending part came, and it shattered my heart completely. the emotion conveyed and the way it is written absolutely destroyed me. I didn’t see this coming and nothing could have prepared me for it.
Regardless of my clear heartbreak though, this was a beautiful story. The whole book felt like a slow heart wrenching song. Even the parts that weren’t about the two of them, were about them, and every page felt like it was oozing this sorrow that made your heart beat with agony. The writing was heartbreaking. It felt detached and yet somehow so personal and intimate. It was perfect. I have nothing to say other than wow. This is going to stay with me. This is now a favourite. What an incredible story.