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A review by dmniccoli
Bend Toward the Sun by Jen Devon
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Soooo many audible reactions while reading this book. It owned my feelings the whole time. Laughing, crying, cursing, and pulling my hair because I wanted to have a sit down with the main characters and have a little “chat.”
It’s an emotional rollercoaster ride - and it’s meant to be a bit messy. There’s so much angst and strife between Rowan and Harrison (if that’s not your thing this book might not work for you), but there’s a lot of hope, too, and all the big and little ways they tell each other they love each other, even before they know it or have the words or the courage to express it, seized me by the heartstrings and left me breathless. By the end, the way is made for healing and growing and learning to trust and love and lean on one another.
Bend Toward the Sun is an excellent title for this book and its themes. I LOVED the characterization work, even when I wanted to shake people. And the setting and plant descriptions were gorgeous, a love letter to place it’s set, and as someone who appreciates science and nature and places that feel like home, I gobbled it all up like the sheep in this book gobble “crunchies.”
I’m gonna be feral for all the books that come after this and let me tell ya, plenty have been teased, and I want every single one.
Content notes: sex, swearing, alcohol consumption, mention of drug use, depression/anxiety, grief, loss of a patient, death, past child abuse/neglect, past partner emotional abuse.
It’s an emotional rollercoaster ride - and it’s meant to be a bit messy. There’s so much angst and strife between Rowan and Harrison (if that’s not your thing this book might not work for you), but there’s a lot of hope, too, and all the big and little ways they tell each other they love each other, even before they know it or have the words or the courage to express it, seized me by the heartstrings and left me breathless. By the end, the way is made for healing and growing and learning to trust and love and lean on one another.
Bend Toward the Sun is an excellent title for this book and its themes. I LOVED the characterization work, even when I wanted to shake people. And the setting and plant descriptions were gorgeous, a love letter to place it’s set, and as someone who appreciates science and nature and places that feel like home, I gobbled it all up like the sheep in this book gobble “crunchies.”
I’m gonna be feral for all the books that come after this and let me tell ya, plenty have been teased, and I want every single one.
Content notes: sex, swearing, alcohol consumption, mention of drug use, depression/anxiety, grief, loss of a patient, death, past child abuse/neglect, past partner emotional abuse.