Like Sands Through the Hourglass
Time is such an elusive thing. Sometimes it feels like forever and the next it feels like it has gone by in a blink of an eye. For someone that has more yesterdays than tomorrows, this feeling has given me a reason to pause of late. Yet, in all of that pondering, NOTHING could have prepared me for this book. From the opening line of the book, I was taken back to my childhood and hearing those words, and even the voice that it was said in, and I was taken to a moment that was heartwarming and bittersweet. One of the best first chapters that I have ever read and I have read a lot.
One of the most beautiful things about this story is that it not only put time into a new perspective but also how not everything is black and white. There is power in a good book. It can make a person laugh, cry, smile, remember, forget, fall in love, or just feel. It is one of the plethora of reasons that I love to read. This book did all of the above and then some. My heart hurt but it also felt joy. I never wanted the book to end. There is a message here that I think everyone needs to remember.
The author knocked me on my behind with this story. The twist in this story I did not see coming. I speculated on certain parts of it but there were many facets of the twist and they were doozies. She created characters that I felt everything they did from grief to awkwardness, to butterfly feelings and twitterpated hearts. The journey for these amazing characters is poignant. It is painful. It is joy and hope. It is forgiveness and love. Bottom line, both the characters and the story were everything. I had to pause a few times because the openness and vulnerability at times were brutal because it made my heart HURT but I trudged on because those moments I watched the characters speak, with words and without them, had me invested in the outcome. It only took ten seconds of reading to make me fall in love with this amazing story.
Hands down my favorite of this author. Definitely one of the best of 2019.
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