Comment on Where Soul Meets Body

  1. Alice (Guest) on Chapter 1 Wed 06 Mar 2019 12:27PM UTC

    Hi, I am so so sorry it took me so long!

    I read this story the first time when I was about 16 and it has since remained within my top five favourite pieces of liferature. This has had such a big impact on me, both emotionally and in terms of the images and ideas it has gifted me. It is the most lovely story both in big and small terms. I have reread it twice, but to me it is one of those pieces you come back to again and again.

    Your writing has touched me deeply and I often find myself thinking about this story. Annie, despite all her trauma has been so easy to relate to and so lovely to relate to. She is your creation. one you constructed based on so little information and you really made her your own and she will remain with me for all my life. The strength you gave her is inspirational and still so lifelike at the same time.

    I loved loved loved the world you created with district four. I fell in love with it within the first chapter; the light, the sea, the seashells, Annie's family. It made their deaths all the more painfull later.

    And I loved the relationship with Finnick and Maggie and all the small and big ways in which you showed your love, all the ways in which you gave depth to their characters and impact to their deaths.

    I love the fact that Annie likes cherry lemonade, puzzles and small red flowers and the story of her recovery is the most human and touching retelling. Even after three years without reading it I can recall so many details and scenes. And they stay with me so vividly and strong because your writing is such a powerful thing!

    Your metaphors are sublime and their timing is perfect! Your style of writing is unlike any I had read before and I love it so so much, the scenes where any adresses the people outside have been so powerful.

    I cried so so much the first time Finnick died,I have never cried as much for any other story. And when I read it the first time I was so so angry with Finnick, I just absolutely couldn't understand why he had to go! And then I read it the second time maybe three years later and suddenly it made that much more sense.

    It just has been one of those story that change you and stay with you forever and I am so so thankful to you and your hard work. I am so grateful you gave me this story, because I love it so very very much!

    Thank you!

    PS: If you are still there, and this reaches you, I have a faour to ask. Is there any way, I can buy this story as a book? Would you even want that? I would love to have a physical copy that I can carry around and I would love to be able to pay you for your incredible work.

    But please don't feel any pressure, if you don't want that I can absolutely understand. :)

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