I don't remember crying this much while reading a book. Tillie Cole ripped my heart; threw it on the floor, jumped on it several times and shattered it in pieces, and I'm not complaining, I desperately needed a good cry.
"It sounds good, don't you think? 'Poppy and Rune, best friends for infinity!' "
*The plot:
When her mamaw is on her deathbed, she gives Poppy a jar with one thousand blank pink hearts in it. She asks Poppy to go on an adventure, which consists of collecting "a thousand boy kisses" from a boy that she genuinely loves. When Rune; her Norwegian neighbour kisses Poppy under her favourite blossom tree in the grove at the age of eight, he promises her to help collect the thousand kisses as her friend. As they grow up, they realise that they have bonded. However, when Rune moves back to Norway and Poppy cuts him off, the thousand boy kisses come to an abrupt halt. Is their love as strong and "as special as special can be" to collect the remaining thousand kisses? Only time would show...
*The characters:
They were all amazing characters, I adored and envied Poppy's relationship with her parents and her sisters, they were truly a great family. I also loved how close they were with their new neighbours, the Kristiansen's.
"You're mine. I'm yours. To hell with anything else."
Poppy was perhaps the most amazing, happiest and strongest main character I've read about. She felt everything with such astonishing passion that she inspired me to focus more on playing my guitar like she did with her cello. I feel like this book and Poppy, thought me a lot, changed my outlook on life.
"Even through all the hurt, pain and anger, I would have been drawn back, like a moth to a flame."
Rune was also one of my favourite characters. I loved how loyal and selfless he was when it came to Poppy. He always put Poppy first and props to Tillie Cole for increasing my expectations in men. The bar is now invisible due to it being so high up, thankyouverymuch. I do not have much to say so instead let's take a moment as hopeless romantics, to pray for men to be as caring as Rune. Take him as an example, look upon him dear men. Amen for that.
"Because nothing so beautiful can last forever. She was a blossom petal, a butterfly, a shooting star..."
This book gradually broke my heart. I'm telling you, it shattered my heart reaally slowly. I started crying when I was 15 pages in and God knows when I stopped. But I'm thankful for that. I am also thankful for Willow for agreeing to read this with me and having to endure me being an extremely soppy reader. You're a survivor of my soppiness :') I'm so glad I somehow (I don't remember how I decided to read this book) decided to pick this one up amongst many other books. I sure am going to be reading more of Tillie Cole because she's become one of my favourite authors! And this book has definitely made it to my top 10 best books of 2022 list.
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