BOOK REVIEW RUNDOWN: THE COLLECTED REGRETS OF CLOVER

📖BOOK TITLE: THE COLLECTED REGRETS OF CLOVER

📖AUTHOR: MIKKI BRAMMER

📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:

#ThirtythirdBookOf2024

The main theme surrounding the story was "GRIEF" and while the story did justice to the theme, I don't think it requires 55 chapters to do so. The book was dragging, but I had to finish it.

In this story, we meet Clover, who is a death doula (I know y'all have only ever heard about birth doulas), but that is what Clover does; she helps prepare you for your death. While I didn't particularly appreciate the extended chapters, I did enjoy the plot. It is easy to use something as a mask to avoid certain social interactions, and that is what Clover used her job to do as a way to avoid interactions with living people.

I am glad she found her will to live again and found love during the process.

📖RATINGS: 3 STARS⭐⭐⭐

📖QUOTES:

1.Giving someone the chance to be seen at their most vulnerable is much more healing than any words

2.If you want something you don’t have, you have to do something you’ve never done.

3.We look at people every day, but we rarely stop to really see them for who they are.

4.It’s easy to glamorize the path you didn’t take

5.Don’t let the best parts of life pass you by because you’re too scared of the unknown.

6.The biggest risk in life is taking no risks at all.

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