Jess✨ 's Reviews > Blue Light Hours

Heartwarming. Insightful. Relatable. Informative. Wholesome.💗

That is (in short) what I felt while reading Blue Light Hours. This story is about a mother living in Brazil and a daughter living in the USA. They communicate over Skype, share life updates, and comfort each other. While separated in space, they are united in loneliness and struggle to start their individual new life chapters.
I loved to read about their stories, the writing style, and share a little bit of their life story with my own.

I could relate to a few parts of the story, even though I am quite privileged. But I lived abroad for half a year on my own, and I felt lonely and lost at times. I, too, was only able to communicate via Skype and shared the weird feeling of missing out on their life stories. Nevertheless, my family was not alone; they had each other, which gave me comfort, but also made me feel even more alone on the other side of the globe all on my own.

And there is much more between the lines. Everything that was not said but felt, that was not done but thought of.

As it is such a quick read, written like poetry, I would recommend this to anyone looking for something slow, yet deep. Something meaningful, yet not heartbreaking.

Thank you NetGalley, Grove Atlantic, and Bruna Dantas Lobato for the advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review - Blue Light Hours will be out on October, 15.

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Prereview:

Ahhh I just received this arc 🤭

This sounds so heartwarming and heartbreaking! I am excited to dive into it once the mood strikes (Publication date is in October, so I still have some time to read it, but I have a feeling that it is not going to take that long for me). 🦋