Just One More Chapter

I'm going to keep this short because I don't want to spoil even the tiniest of things. BUT this book is something I didn't realize I desperately needed until I was neck deep, wading through its depths. I want to bottle these emotions so I can take them out on gloomy days and reminisce about the happiness and sense of completion this book gifted me. I have heard nothing but praise for The House In The Cerulean Sea, therefore, I was leary going into this read. I went in a Skeptic and came out an Apostle. As I sat in a doctor's waiting room with this in hand, within the matter of 15 minutes I had cried and then I laughed... all out loud... sniffling wildly in the middle of a pandemic, garnering looks of suspicion and outright disgust. I must have looked like a crazy person BUT I didn't care... I had found an ereader sized gem and I am going to treasure it Smeagol style for all time... also, wearing a mask helped hide most of the evidence. 

The characters are the stars of this show and I truly fell in love over and over again... deeper in love with each passing page. Each character will forever own a piece of my heart but Lucy... Lucy has the lion's... errr Devil's share. I love him to tiny little perfectly jagged little pieces of pure Love. 

I'll end things here but just so you know:

- characters--> AMAZING

- world building--> lush and evocative and tangible 

- writing--> raw and alluring and it completely ensnared me heart and soul.

- pacing--> a tad slow to start but when things got rolling and I started understanding what was going on more, it swept me away.

I am off to (reverentially) place this where it belongs... in my Favorites folder. 

~ Enjoy