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Long Shot
by Kennedy Ryan
Pain. Heartbreak. Healing. Hope. True love
“Ours is a love that reimagines—that peels back the sky at high noon searching for the stars, collecting them like shells in a bucket. We bathe in stardust, drink from the Milky Way, and dance on the moon. We pierce the firmament, peer into infinity, and tread on time and space. There is no before. There is no after. Now gives birth to forever. This moment may die, but this love never will. Time is not a line. It’s a circle, and we, August and Iris, we stand at the center.”
This book is at times difficult, uncomfortable, and just plain painful to read; it’s frustrating and heartbreaking, and there were times I had to set my tablet aside for the fear of throwing it at the wall. But every time I wanted to pick it back up to get to the resolution, because at its heart, the story of Iris and August, individually and together, is a story of hope and healing and finding your strength to overcome the darkest of times, and so much more that I can’t put into words. I felt all of Iris’s pain and struggles in my bones even though I can’t begin to imagine it, and she deserved all the care and the love and the soul deep connection that she only had with August.
It may not be for everyone, because there are triggers aplenty, but the journey to that emotional, hard fought HEA, is immensely satisfying if you do decide to take it.
“Ours is a love that reimagines—that peels back the sky at high noon searching for the stars, collecting them like shells in a bucket. We bathe in stardust, drink from the Milky Way, and dance on the moon. We pierce the firmament, peer into infinity, and tread on time and space. There is no before. There is no after. Now gives birth to forever. This moment may die, but this love never will. Time is not a line. It’s a circle, and we, August and Iris, we stand at the center.”
This book is at times difficult, uncomfortable, and just plain painful to read; it’s frustrating and heartbreaking, and there were times I had to set my tablet aside for the fear of throwing it at the wall. But every time I wanted to pick it back up to get to the resolution, because at its heart, the story of Iris and August, individually and together, is a story of hope and healing and finding your strength to overcome the darkest of times, and so much more that I can’t put into words. I felt all of Iris’s pain and struggles in my bones even though I can’t begin to imagine it, and she deserved all the care and the love and the soul deep connection that she only had with August.
It may not be for everyone, because there are triggers aplenty, but the journey to that emotional, hard fought HEA, is immensely satisfying if you do decide to take it.