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book review : the things we leave unfinished

Genre: Romance Reading age: 16+ Rating: 8/10 You’ll like this if you’ve read: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover, Dear John by Nicholas Sparks If I could describe this book in one word it would be… poetic. If you have watched moonlight or avatar, it’s knowing you’re watching a movie, or in this case, reading a book but feeling like you’re staring at a piece of moving art. Rebecca Yarros does a great job of describing the indescribable and although it may not be realistic for a character to break out into ballad-like form during everyday conversation, you understand because this book isn’t about realism, it’s about explaining the human emotions our hearts cannot articulate. The book is split into two story’s, the story of Scarlett Stanton and the story of Georgia Stanton, two generations apart but connected by love… and a book that was left unfinished. Between the alternating chapters and eras it can become tempting to read one story over the other at times but by the end of it all you underst