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God damn. This book absolutely destroyed me. I can't say much else right now except.. wow. I'm not familiar with PTSD in my personal life or with anybody close to me, thankfully - but I felt like I was experiencing it ALL right there with Sabine.

I wish I was better at articulating my thoughts because I have so much more to say.

Anyway, read this after reading Ask, Tell, k? And whatever else the author has written, because that's what I'm doing.

EJ Noyes.. I kind of love you.
Also: Abby Craden could narrate the damn dictionary and make it sound incredible. Everybody hire her to narrate your books.

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4.0

4 stars ---
(Audio)

This book gave me things in Rebecca and Sabine's story that I didn't know I wanted or needed.

I was elated to discover that there was more. I didn't know what it was going to entail and I am very glad to find that Noyes played upon Sabine's unfortunate PTSD from "The Incident". Having this looming and destructive thing hanging over Sabine and Rebecca the whole time gave so much depth and made every interaction they shared so much more human. It gave a very real depiction of how these hard topics should be handled and I loved that there was not sugar coating on any of it.

Now, because of this depth with the PTSD, I do think I became somewhat tiresome of Rebecca and Sabine talking about it all so often. And then, I realized, that that's the point. These issues don't just go away after one mention. They are persistent and take up every waking thought and once I came around to realizing that, I outgrew my hatred for the repetition and valued every interaction so much more.

I adore Rebecca for her emotional intelligence, too. I think the interactions between Sabs and Bec became layered with sweetness and understanding because of Bec and it made me ache for the two of them to pull through these hard times.

I will also take a moment and say that I commend Noyes' writing style and having her walk us through every little moment, emotion, movement, etc. The amount of detail that goes into just one sentence being uttered (or to touch on the spicy side of things, every lustful movement too *wink wink*) made it that much more entrancing to watch both of these women grow and adapt.

Love this story. Love these two.