Likes and Dislikes
I loved how Alice’s personality seeps into the pages, as well as how the progression of the story felt so organic and thrilling, as though her memories were my own and I was simply re-experiencing them in High Definition.
The language used and general expression fascinated me and, along with good tension-building, managed to keep me hooked all the way through.
How Alice distracts herself from her thoughts by reading ingredient labels (some form of OCD) was another thing I could relate to, and this made the story experience even better.
Memorable Quotes
As usual, I couldn’t pick any one quote from such a wonderful piece of work.
I did, however, manage to settle on three.
1) ‘Every sinner has a future and every saint has a past- no-one’s soul is clean.’
2) ‘You have a way of seeing the world. You create a rhythm and cast it over everything.’
3) ‘With every choice comes a ripple effect across countless lives. What are we to do when our waters ripple too far, too fast, consuming everyone around us?’
Each of these three quotes holds a powerful message about life.
No-one is perfect: we all hold secrets, dark thoughts, and mistakes that we must learn from if we are ever to improve upon ourselves.
We see the world however we’ve been taught to see it, but this too we can change if we want to.
Every thought we have and action we take has an underlying meaning and its own consequences.