A review by sofi_bora87
Catalyst by S.J. Kincaid

5.0

Uff. This book always hurts, it always feels like leaving a friend behind and I don’t ever know how to make the feeling recede. I guess for me it’s always represented the past, I get too nostalgic about it and returning to it brings me back this sense of giddiness and innocence and when I finish it, although it is always with a feeling of hope and a smile on my face, it hurts.
It’s this clear and aching reminder that life goes on, the carrusel never stops turning, time cannot be stoped in whatever moment we choose, I cannot go back to all those days I read this book and laugh filled me and i cannot go back to the sense of reading these books for the first time or even more importantly, rereading parts of them with a lot of time ahead of me, problems and questions and happiness and anger and all sort of feelings awaiting me on days to come. I cannot make time freeze, no matter how many times I wished it did. I must keep on living.
I think every time I finish this book a get this sense of loss, I don’t know why, but it hurts even when I adore the ending and the whole story. It always hurts to leave them behind, frozen in time.
I don’t know, I truly don’t but I guess I always miss these characters and these feelings, I can’t help it.

I’m happy but I am also really sad that this is the ending.