This book made me feel the feels and I will not apologize for it.

Yes, this is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but it is also so much more. This story is not about sacrifice, it’s about discovery. This story is about wanting, seeking, always looking ahead and never where we are. It’s about yearning for that unknown thing which will allow us to feel at peace in places we’re slightly outside of. One foot in, one foot out, and sure that everyone else also knows we’re strangers far from a home we haven’t found yet. Do you know this feeling? I do.

Maybe there is and will never be a place of belonging, a place to call home. We can keep wanting and seeking and searching until our feet ache and we feel more lost than ever, while what we look for remains elusively one step ahead. Because regardless of the physical places in which we find ourselves, the places that make us feel like visitors even after years of residency, it is the people who love us and the choice to remain selfishly authentic which will finally provide the peace we seek.

And hopefully along the way we find a person who’s wanting, whose song, agrees with our own.