this book... wow.

we first meet the mother of the main character in the first chapter, which, in itself, is already pretty heartbreaking. we then meet the actual main character, cyril avery, and accompany him throughout his life. cyril is such a realistic character and the things he had to go through broke my heart so many times.

this book made me cry like a baby. firstly, the characters are so well done - there's some who i simply can't hate despite things they did because their reactions were so human. take julian as an example. i didn't like him at the start, he grew on me eventually, i got mad at him at some point and yet, in the end, i couldn't help but still love him very dearly.

if i had to point out a favorite character, i'd highlight alice. she was so amazing to me, and i really loved her sarcastic sense of humor. (honestly, her bickering with cyril kept me going.)

bastiaan is, too, a character that deserves to be named. i was so deeply in love with his character and so broken when he died in such a cruel way. especially when cyril had found happiness, the literal love of his life. ~~and right after julian died, really?~~

the writing was amazing. it's baffling how brutal and utterly ******-up society was back when cyril was younger. it made me so mad. but the ending, the ending, oh my god. i was so happy, and yet so sad. truly there isn't any other way to describe it. but it couldn't have ended in a better way.

i can't begin to describe how much the heart's invisible furies has impacted me. having spent the past hours crying (i'm quite sensitive, no judging), i'm left with this bittersweet feeling and yet i feel so complete.

“I’ve spent so much time pushing the boat out that I forgot to jump on and now it’s out beyond the harbor on the high seas, but it’s very nice to look at. And that’s how I feel. Standing on the shore, looking out at the boat. Why couldn’t Ireland have been like this when I was a boy?”

lets out a very long sigh.

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