At first I was not clear about what caught my attention in this novel. His synopsis was presented simple, without great pretensions or an enigmatic plot. It is good that it was a love story, and that a romantic novel does not have to be covered with any sophistication.
But in the end it was precisely that which led me to pause on this novel. In a time when everything succumbs to the flashy presentation for immediate sale, simplicity made its way among other readings for me to stop at it.
And that is what is found between these pages. Peace of mind, love understood as the simplest of human instincts. Recreation in language to make the reader understand what two people can come to love each other.
Nothing more and nothing less. Because actually there is sophistication in the story. Nowadays it is very sophisticated that love and friendship converge in a relationship. The interesting thing about this novel is that it makes you participate in the simplicity of loving someone in front of everything and above all. The difficult made easy. Without other dark motivations or artificial additions.
And who knows, maybe I can even help you without being one of those soporific self-help books. Empathizing with characters given to the simplicity of love and friendship without prejudice turns out to be a risky adventure in our world, when it only requires a certain detachment from marked individualism, marked selfishness and what they will say.
Kim and Laura. So different and so magically equal in that common space created. The harmony of two souls that write each page of the book, each scene and situation no matter how adverse or even routine it may seem. Complicity understood as the dialogue between two souls.
A recommended reading to free yourself from overloads, overstimuli and reconnect with yourself and those around you.
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