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A review by eyreibreathe
The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
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Oof. This book, you guys... From time to time, I crave a love story full of richness, depth, and beautiful writing. It's a hard balance to achieve - it's so easy to go overboard and veer into overly saccharine and cheesy or land on the other side of the balance beam and leave the reader underwhelmed and wanting more. The Days I Loved You Most managed to land right in that sweet spot.
I loved that we as readers get to follow Evelyn and Joseph's love story from the very beginning - from that heady newfound teenage romance to the comfort and depth of 60 years later, at the end of a life spent together. The magic and the butterflies are there, yes, but there is real life between these pages as well - the joys and raw heartache of parenting, the losses incurred along the way, those stages in life where you feel as if you've lost your way and lost yourself somewhere in there also, the times in which you cling to one another in blind faith... This story was real and poignant and utterly beautiful. I cannot believe this is Amy Neff's debut novel.
Oof. This book, you guys... From time to time, I crave a love story full of richness, depth, and beautiful writing. It's a hard balance to achieve - it's so easy to go overboard and veer into overly saccharine and cheesy or land on the other side of the balance beam and leave the reader underwhelmed and wanting more. The Days I Loved You Most managed to land right in that sweet spot.
I loved that we as readers get to follow Evelyn and Joseph's love story from the very beginning - from that heady newfound teenage romance to the comfort and depth of 60 years later, at the end of a life spent together. The magic and the butterflies are there, yes, but there is real life between these pages as well - the joys and raw heartache of parenting, the losses incurred along the way, those stages in life where you feel as if you've lost your way and lost yourself somewhere in there also, the times in which you cling to one another in blind faith... This story was real and poignant and utterly beautiful. I cannot believe this is Amy Neff's debut novel.