For the Fans by Nyla K.

The book left me empty hearted by the end. And it should have not, considering it should have been a light reading and it is, after all, a spice book.

Not going to enter in this wasp nest of discussing spice, but there is a difference between books with spice and spicy book, and I like then both.

Well, this one is s-pi-cey, it’s in a category of it’s own. But it’s beautifully written, has a dept and a naïveté that appealed to me like a mug of hot chocolate in front of the fire in the autumn.

And the final plot twist left me with tears in my eyes and a knot in the stomach. It was a punch in the gut on my old catholic ways. Liked or not, I was raised deeply catholic. And no matter how distant I feel from that now or how can I racionalize faith, God and separated it from church, it was uncomfortable.

But went through with it. And it was a ride.

And now here, the highlighted text, for the fans:

But like most things, we adapt to it, and we move on. Human beings are built to persevere. We have the fascinating ability to come to terms with the drastic changes of life. We modify, alter, adjust…We live, because that’s what we’re made to do. To keep going on until the wayward forces of the universe stops is in one way or the other.

God is faith, Avi. Faith in yourself, as a part of the world as it turns. And for all that hate, and sickness and despair we experience, there are equal parts love and joy. You just have to look up.

Good people get hurt, bad ones walk free, and things just happen. Chaos within an infinite, spiraling cosmic circus. The only thing we can do is have faith in us, find beauty in the pain, and laugh as much as possible.