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Spoilers if you haven't read Grave Secrets or Grave Prophecies.
Just wow. I have not cried so much over a book in a while. I knew going into this that it was going to be sad. I've read Grave Secrets and Grave Prophecies, so I knew what happened between Simon and Rebecca. There's even a warning at the beginning that says, "If you were looking for a happy ending, stop reading now." That still did not prepare me to have my heart ripped out of my chest.
I never really had a problem with Rebecca I don't think. I felt more connected to Allie because that's who I was first introduced to and it was kind of jarring to have her disappear when Rebecca took over. Even though they are maybe technically the same person, they still feel so separate in my head. I definitely started to connect with Rebecca more in Grave Prophecies, when her guard started to come down and there were glimpses of her pain. It's like we saw the hard, tough, unlikeable exterior in the beginning, but each book after has been peeling back the layers that make up the person, allowing us to see the circumstances that formed them. And the circumstances are horrible! Rebecca was just a woman who loved her daughter and Simon, and her abusive, manipulative father destroyed her life and turned Simon into a night creature slave. After this beginning and the reincarnating and the dying, I would be a b**** too!
The scenes with Simon were tough. I've always loved him because of his devotion and he seemed to carry the weight of his past pretty well. Seeing it all laid out, the horrors that he witnessed in the war and the acts he committed in order to save Rebecca are eye popping. A weaker man would have caved. My heart was continuously breaking as Simon and Rebecca were torn apart again and again in the final years of her life.
I will say that I think this hit harder for me because I had read books one and two first. The scene of Simon clinging on to Rebecca towards the end of Grave Prophecies is seared into my brain, and that's what I kept picturing when I read this. Simon loved Rebecca for LIFETIMES, and it was full of so much pain and sacrifice and crappy circumstances. But he never stopped fighting for her. It's all just tragic and I'm tearing up again.
Thank you to the author for allowing me to read this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Just wow. I have not cried so much over a book in a while. I knew going into this that it was going to be sad. I've read Grave Secrets and Grave Prophecies, so I knew what happened between Simon and Rebecca. There's even a warning at the beginning that says, "If you were looking for a happy ending, stop reading now." That still did not prepare me to have my heart ripped out of my chest.
I never really had a problem with Rebecca I don't think. I felt more connected to Allie because that's who I was first introduced to and it was kind of jarring to have her disappear when Rebecca took over. Even though they are maybe technically the same person, they still feel so separate in my head. I definitely started to connect with Rebecca more in Grave Prophecies, when her guard started to come down and there were glimpses of her pain. It's like we saw the hard, tough, unlikeable exterior in the beginning, but each book after has been peeling back the layers that make up the person, allowing us to see the circumstances that formed them. And the circumstances are horrible! Rebecca was just a woman who loved her daughter and Simon, and her abusive, manipulative father destroyed her life and turned Simon into a night creature slave. After this beginning and the reincarnating and the dying, I would be a b**** too!
The scenes with Simon were tough. I've always loved him because of his devotion and he seemed to carry the weight of his past pretty well. Seeing it all laid out, the horrors that he witnessed in the war and the acts he committed in order to save Rebecca are eye popping. A weaker man would have caved. My heart was continuously breaking as Simon and Rebecca were torn apart again and again in the final years of her life.
I will say that I think this hit harder for me because I had read books one and two first. The scene of Simon clinging on to Rebecca towards the end of Grave Prophecies is seared into my brain, and that's what I kept picturing when I read this. Simon loved Rebecca for LIFETIMES, and it was full of so much pain and sacrifice and crappy circumstances. But he never stopped fighting for her. It's all just tragic and I'm tearing up again.
Thank you to the author for allowing me to read this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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April 28, 2024
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