The Sea of Tranquility
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A School Library Journal Best Book of 2013 An ALA/YALSA Alex Award Winner I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett. Josh’s story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to. The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
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When he stops, I'm still here, and he's still looking at me like he can't believe I am, and I want to keep that look forever.“Emilia,” he says, and when he does, it warms me to my soul. “Every day you save me.”
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— I wish I could go back in time to 4 years ago just so I could read this beautiful gem again for the first time, and to read the wonderful ending line again for the first time!!! Honestly the best ending line I've ever read!
Oh wow, is this book beautiful. Not just the writing - which is beautiful too - but the storytelling, the heart-break, the emotion, all packed into an addicting story that kept me coming back regardless of how teary-eyed I was. How else could I do this one justice?
I started this book at lunch, read more after work, had dinner and continued reading until I finished at 2AM. I just couldn't find a place where I wanted to stop. A lot of books say they're “heartbreaking,” this one was.
Sometimes I couldn't see the words for the tears streaming down my face, sometimes my chest got tight from the pain the characters felt and caused, occasionally I laughed out loud. It was real to me - for me in the moment, I was invested.
You can't really explain the things you love, they just come to you and I loved this book. I loved that the characters were broken, but trying, that all of them did shitty things and struggled and had moments of self-awareness. I loved that there wasn't an easy answer at the end even though there was a resolution. I felt like I knew these people. So, for me, this was more than a story, it was something that became a part of me.
