Review: 4.5 Heart wrenching Beautiful STARS!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2014
A Beautiful, enchanting bittersweet story.You know how much a book will leave a lasting impression on you right from the get go. From the moment it draws you in like a vacuum suctioning you into it. My eyes were plastered on the pages. My mind and emotions were immersed, floating on every single word every single verse.53 Letters For My Lover is a story about a woman who at a young age is wedded to a kind man but a broken one who has his fair share of demons. Shaydah is a woman who gives and gives because she is selfless that way. She does everything for her family, even though life is not easy and she suffers but she keeps going.“My grandma used to say that people born on the same day are two halves of the same soul.”The moment the universe puts Troy Heathgate in her way she will fight the obvious attraction and chemistry they share. But every time they keep finding their way back into on another lives they will accept the inevitable.“I know it took a lot for you to get here and I know why you came.”“Why?”“For the same reason I did. Because you had no choice. Because you couldn’t eat. Or sleep. Or think of anything else but this.”There is something about this story that maybe made her actions and decisions to become selfish ok in my eyes. I’m not one to condone affairs, but if you listen well and you put yourself in her shoes things shift in your view. It would be very easy for me to defend the why I felt the affair really didn’t feel like an affaire, and for that sole reason it never bothered me. But who am I to decide what is wrong or right? Who am I to tell you what is acceptable and what is not? And this book is one that will have you deciding if what she does or doesn’t do is ok or not.“It was so much easier in that other world. If you were a woman, you didn’t expect happiness, so you didn’t chase after it. If you found it, you held on to whatever scraps you could get. And if you collected enough, you could stitch together a cloak and get through life intact.”53 Letters For My Lover embarks in a journey of love, family, duty, sacrifice, right, wrong, guilt, shame, timing and true love. This story is so much more than a woman trapped in a doormat life. It is about Shaydah finding herself, giving in to her true happiness and getting over the hurdles life throws her way.“So what’s it like? To have it all?”~ Shaydah“Like, Flying. Soaring. Until you come across the one thing you’d give it all up for, and can never have.”- TroyWe get to see Shaydah and Troy at the age of 21, then in their 30′s and 40′s. This isn’t a story of lust, or love gone wrong. It’s a story of two people whose path keep on crossing. And the tragedy of it all is that what they feel is so pure and palpable. Both want the same thing from the moment they meet and they fight it until there is no fight left in them. And all the circumstances and thing that should keep them apart start to not matter. The only thing that matters is that they belong together one way or another.“We were like two stars converging around the same axis, but with paths that missed each other by a fraction of infinity.”I really can’t recommend this story enough. It is a beautifully bittersweet story, that will have you glued to each page. Your heart will beat fast and slow. You will get lost with the effortless writing. The passages are poetic and metaphorical. A poignant tale. A sad, beautiful lovely story of love and life’s hardships. A story of redemption and true soul shattering love.“My wish came true. I found my wings, Scary Cherry.”4.5 Beautiful Heartbreaking STARS!!!