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A review by ellyrarg
Sea of Memories by Fiona Valpy
3.0
The book was better than the name/cover suggests. It was slow to start, but I totally fell head over heels for Ella and Christophé. It was engaging and sweet and oh, the heartbreak. I felt that she was such a lady to hold by her vows, but my days I felt it cost her true happiness, taught her kids a false impression of a happy couple, and I was so sad she didn’t get the chance to have the epic day to day love that would have been more than life changing. I delved into her chapters, loved her wonder and determination of her early life.
By comparison, I did not, even for a moment, bend my knees for Kendra and her wishy washy in-herself-ness. She didn’t fight for a single thing in her life, she didn’t strive for anything like Ella did. She was thrown into the worlds of special needs, complete with the complexity of relationship strains and financial woes that come with it and just reacted with a bit of woe, shock and wondering, like special needs parents who are new do, not like special needs parents who have been in the game a while and want more for themselves and their kids. It felt so off.
Worse was when her life and that of her family was ‘fixed’ with money. Hate it. The special needs life, and the joy and love and grief and that whole experience is not ‘made better’ with healthy finances and moves to the country. When people say ‘I don’t know how you do it’ every special needs mama answers ‘I wasn’t given a choice, I do it for love’ so the ending proper irked. A life with special needs deserves more than that.
By comparison, I did not, even for a moment, bend my knees for Kendra and her wishy washy in-herself-ness. She didn’t fight for a single thing in her life, she didn’t strive for anything like Ella did. She was thrown into the worlds of special needs, complete with the complexity of relationship strains and financial woes that come with it and just reacted with a bit of woe, shock and wondering, like special needs parents who are new do, not like special needs parents who have been in the game a while and want more for themselves and their kids. It felt so off.
Worse was when her life and that of her family was ‘fixed’ with money. Hate it. The special needs life, and the joy and love and grief and that whole experience is not ‘made better’ with healthy finances and moves to the country. When people say ‘I don’t know how you do it’ every special needs mama answers ‘I wasn’t given a choice, I do it for love’ so the ending proper irked. A life with special needs deserves more than that.