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A review by theliteraturegoblin
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
4.0
WEIRD and COSY – I was following along just fine, until suddenly I wasn’t, only to regain understanding again moments later. The rhythm of the narration keeps you on edge in such an unusual yet engrossing way. After finishing, I find myself thinking that maybe this was on purpose? to demonstrate how the space between time and the living and the dead is unexplainable
The use of “you” to address the reader, linking it to memories, made me feel an intimacy I haven’t experienced with a book in a long time. It was as if the book was speaking directly to me. “The space between me and me is you” that line struck me deeply and “You would say, if I was a fairy, this is where I’d live.”
The novel had moments that left me gasping, and although it was marketed as a zombie story, I wouldn’t call it that. It’s more about the search for meaning, about revisiting the places of memory, trying to feel something again. It’s a reminder of how profound our interactions can be, even after death.
“I compile a picture of the old woman I will never be. I know everything about her.”
That line, “What is hunger without grief?” – so simple, yet so beautiful. It’s one of the many philosophical moments in the book. The storytelling stays with you long after you turn the last page. What happens in the shack, and especially all things around the crow, will stay with me forever.
“What are you doing on the roof with all our furniture?”
“Building a time machine.”
“Sometimes I think grief is a time machine…”
“Is that what the crow told you?”
“I am the only ticket holder at a suicide theme park.”
“What is unbearable is already too much. How could there be more?” It captures the crushing weight of grief in a way I can’t quite describe.
The use of “you” to address the reader, linking it to memories, made me feel an intimacy I haven’t experienced with a book in a long time. It was as if the book was speaking directly to me. “The space between me and me is you” that line struck me deeply and “You would say, if I was a fairy, this is where I’d live.”
The novel had moments that left me gasping, and although it was marketed as a zombie story, I wouldn’t call it that. It’s more about the search for meaning, about revisiting the places of memory, trying to feel something again. It’s a reminder of how profound our interactions can be, even after death.
“I compile a picture of the old woman I will never be. I know everything about her.”
That line, “What is hunger without grief?” – so simple, yet so beautiful. It’s one of the many philosophical moments in the book. The storytelling stays with you long after you turn the last page. What happens in the shack, and especially all things around the crow, will stay with me forever.
“What are you doing on the roof with all our furniture?”
“Building a time machine.”
“Sometimes I think grief is a time machine…”
“Is that what the crow told you?”
“I am the only ticket holder at a suicide theme park.”
“What is unbearable is already too much. How could there be more?” It captures the crushing weight of grief in a way I can’t quite describe.