any's Reviews > Afterlove

Play You and I by PVRIS
Playlist: poppy + ash.

"I’ve always felt off to the side, like I’m watching on. An extra in everyone else’s story. But here I am and here she is and I finally get the lead role and while I don’t know how this story ends, this is how it starts: outside the station, commuters bustling past in their effort to catch the 17:58, her hand in mine”

This is a book about loss, about life and death, about grief and principally about love.

Ash's story is the most unique, beautiful, and heartbreaking. She needs to deal with grief, she needs to deal with the loss of her one and only love and the loss of her own life, she died at sixteen, she had all of her life ahead and she lost it.
But when she loses, she learns how life is small and you need to be you, without fear and without strings attached. a little late? maybe.
The book's message about loving, being loved, and living a full life is one of the purest and most well-written things i’ve ever read.

"I am not to be loved. Not out loud anyway”

And then, the love story, i don’t have words, Poppy was ash’s first love, the person who really saw Ash and want to know her in every way possible, poppy love her out loud. Not even death separated them.

” When I say that I love you, Ash, I don’t meant that I love in the way that I love Basquiat or oat milk lattes, I mean that I love you. All that you are and all that you will be and I can’t wait to find out who that person is.”

Ash and Poppy are made for each other. They made me happy and break my heart, an emotional ride. Not even death can tear them apart, like really.

”We’ve found each other again. Of all the people, her.

THE WRITTEN!!!!! I never really pay attention to writing (only if it's really bad cough cough) but omg the author knows how to write, knows how to touch you and make you cry!!! knows how to show what the characters are feeling in the best possible way. it's poetical, even the monologues!!!! they are not boring!!!

”You found each other in life and you found each other in death and you’ll find each other in whatever’s beyond the sea.”