Review: Creates a symphony of feelings
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 21, 2014
Broken: not functioning properly; out of working order.In Weeping Angels we meet two people who deal differently with their broken pieces.They compartmentalize the feelings and move forward while never healing. Out of sight…out of mind. This would be Frankie.“I can’t deal with that. I stopped dealing with it four years ago……….the day I told Iris that she was dead to me, the day she died to me.”Or like some live every day with the constant memory, or the lack of, to be a constant reminder of the fragmented scraps of a person they once were. Accepting the pain and turning into anger.  This would be Topher.“It’s the same feeling as lying bandaged and broken and recognizing the death of my future.”When one tragedy brings these two together, they realize they are shattered pieces trying to find understanding and acceptance. However, they in some ways refuse to heal, but for a short while they find the comfort in each other. They deny themselves anything more than that.“She smiles something so pure that my frozen heart breaks. I hear it crack and another watershed of tears crashes on us. This isn’t what I wanted to happen. It is and it isn’t”“When you love something you let it go.” Yes, that quote, the one that thousands have spewed to make it sound like letting someone go is the right thing to do. The one that breaks hearts everywhere. BUT yes, it also has the power to heal.  It takes finding and letting go to bring these to out of just existing to living.“ This emotion is irrepressible. A tsunami has crashed upon my devastation and has swept up the debris of my broken city.”Cristy Rey writes you into the deep devastation of these two. You feel the despair and you feel the anger. You experience their ignorance of believing their coping mechanisms are working. Then amidst all of the depression a light begins to grow. It shines on them separately and we watch the co-dependency start to take a hike. This story is really beautiful. I can’t turn my words into a masterpiece to do justice to this book. Just know this story is very real although it is mostly fiction. For those who worry about reading an emotionally strong book, this ends with acceptance. It ends in a good place. Don’t miss out on Topher and Frankie’s story.5 -beautifully mending stars.