This book absolutely crushed me and then fixed me with a tender touch. Definitely an emotional read but also a healing one, which is a story I've always been into. I will always welcome the angst in my reads with an open heart especially if it will also heal me on its own.
I might not knowledgeable enough about the matter of schizophrenia or delusions and other mental illnesses but I appreciate that the author never brushed off the gravity of it. She never portrayed it in a way that falling in love and finding someone who can support you in a lot of ways is equivalent to immediately being mentally cured. This one portrayed that love is salvation but in a more realistic light and I absolutely loved it.
They said the FL is clingy and a little assertive with her approach with the ML but I think those exact attitude of hers, added her her sincere and deep love, is what the ML needed in order to escape the darkness devouring him and seeing that there's a light that he can cling on to. I honestly think that both of them complement each other.
The actual ending is definitely a happy one but reading the extra chapters, expect that it will be a little bittersweet. Knowing that the ML relapsed after the FL died, thinking that his wife is still alive for three years after that and then turned sober right before his own time, that's a little heartbreaking. The only consolation is that both FL and ML lived until their 80s so it's definitely a fulfilling and blissful life with each other.
A woman gets to travel back in time in order to make things right with her first love from high school. The story seemed interesting initially as it touched upon the male lead's schizophrenia and the childhood trauma behind it. It was touching and sometimes painful to read. But after he began his medication and they got together, there wasn't much substance left to the story. Which is why I think this novel could have been a lot shorter; I couldn't really be bothered to finish the last four chapters. Maybe I'll read them some other time.
“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, hard to forget.”
The quote really suite this novel. This novel is painful for me to read but nevertheless a good one. Both the ml and fl suffered in the previous lifetime and now in the lifetime, they deserved the happy ending 😭
Their love show me that I should never give up if I really love someone. The ml and fl’s love is so beautiful. This novel remind me of the movie “A Beautiful Mind”; A biographical drama film based on the life of the American mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics and Abel Prize winner played by Russell Crowe.
I really like the author poetic style. The description is simply beautiful; with a twist of physic related.
My favourite part is the ending, where the daughter talks about the struggles she saw with her own eyes. It's tear-jerking but it shows that life isn't rainbow all the time.. there are rain and thunderstorm everytime before the rainbows show up.
I MTL-ed this book and it turns out really great. The plot covers stories about mental illness (scizophernia, paranoia and depression), how people around intensify the severity of the illness, and how sincerity, devotion and life-long love would be a great help for those who suffer from mental illness. I cry my heart out after reading this book since the story itself is beautiful beyond the maesure🥺
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Everyone in this world is suffering from something that others never know. I survived, because of two essential things in my life, physics and her. Physics gave me the ability to think rationally in darkness, and she gave me my light.”_Lý Duy