One Day Soon
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He found me in blood and tears. I stayed with him through darkness and fire. We loved each other in the moment between innocence and bitter truth. We were the kids easily ignored, who grew into adults we hardly knew. We weren't meant to last forever. And we didn't. He ran away. I tried to move on. Yet I never stopped thinking about the boy who had fought to keep me alive in a world that would have swallowed me whole. He was the past that I buried, but never forgot. Until the day I found him again, years after believing I had lost him forever. And in cold, resentful eyes, I saw the heart of the man who had been everything when I had nothing at all. So I vowed to hold onto the second chance that was stolen from the children we had been. Sometimes fate is ugly. Life can be twisted. And who we are can be ruined by who we once were. For two people who had survived so much, we would have to learn how to hold on before we were forced to let go.
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This one hurt A LOT. Literal physical pain that I felt deep in my chest. This was perhaps the toughest, most gut-wrenching book I have ever read. Yoss and Imogen's story is no fairy tale. It's dark and raw and painful and not for everyone. There is a lot of possibly triggering subject matter that is difficult to read. The author does a fantastic job of making sure the reader feels every emotion as the characters experience it. I felt Yoss's shame, and Imi's disgust over their situation. I felt their desperation to survive and Yoss's need to save everyone with little to no regard for himself. It was so overwhelming at times that I had to stop reading. But amongst all of the pain, there were moments of beauty that left me rooting for these two broken characters. Yoss and Imi loved each other so fiercely that it was impossible to not want them to get their fairy tale ending. One Day Soon is one of those books that will definitely leave a mark and won't soon be forgotten.
I also recommend that anyone who reads this keep a tissue box nearby because you will cry sad tears and happy tears and tears of relief and just probably for the entire book.
