Review: Beautiful and melancholy
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2013
T.A. Webb's writing is gracefully melancholy. Let's Hear it for the Boy is a hauntingly beautiful story about love and pain.Now, I'm not going to say too much because:1. I'm still recovering from having my little heart stomped all over. And,2. I think this should be read without knowing exactly what you're getting yourself into. After I had my first "holy wow, omg, no no no" moment, they just kept rolling in.This may be a short story, but it packs a punch. It is amazing how much emotion is fit into a small amount of writing. It is powerful writing. And it's lovely, and it hurts. The characters resonate, and I thought the descriptions were particularly exquisite. There is this comparison of pain to rain that really stuck with me. This is just beautifully written.Once I started crying I don't think I stopped until I reached the end. Normally, I delicately shed a few tears, because I'm classy like that. But, this book made me ugly cry so hard.However, in the end I found myself smiling through the tears.5 Stars