Reviewed by Dan

TITLE:    All The Skies I Will Not See

SERIES:   A Touch of Cinnamon #2

AUTHOR:     Petra March

PUBLISHER:  Petra F. Bagnardi

LENGTH:     37 Pages

BLURB:

It takes 7 seconds to crash.

It takes 3 seconds to fall in love.

It takes an infinite moment to let go.

David Medwin’s life is fading away, and all he can think about is what it means to be alive.

An intense story about life, death and, most of all, love.

REVIEW:

This story is only 37 pages long, and it came through on my Kindle in a strange font that I wasn’t used to. My first thought was what the heck is this?

Then I read the first page…which I feel the need to quote here. “Prologue. Now. My name is David Medwin. I’m twenty-one years old. Something bad happened to me. These are the last, precious moments of my existence.”

I know, right? How could you not keep going? The story is skillfully told through sections which occur both now, and four years ago. In the now, we follow along through a very short period of time, discovering more about what has happened to David as we go.

During the alternating pieces that take place four years ago, we learn more about who David Medwin is. We meet his friends. We discover his secrets. We’re there when he discovers things about himself and we’re there when he meets a young Greek boy named Ari.

Wow, this story was really powerful. What I, as a reader, took from it is you should never put stuff off. No one is promised tomorrow. For such a short story, it left me emotionally drained, and a little devastated. You know what the end is going to be right from the first line of the book, but it doesn’t make it easier.

In my opinion you do not need to read the first book in the series to read this novella. The first book appears to have a more heterosexual leaning, so it isn’t one we reviewed here at Love Bytes. It doesn’t matter. This one definitely stands on its own. This is an amazing story by an amazing author. The voice of the story is so different from what I’m used to reading. I couldn’t put it down.

I highly recommend it.

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