A Series of Rooms

A lovely read :)

[4.4~4.5 - rounding up because I couldn't put it down unless I was forced to. What a debut!] There's always a place for lighthearted, little-to-no angst stories, where the predictability is a comfort you can fall into. A foray into a fictional world without the sort of pain that renders you helpless and unable.

Then you have stories cut out of their own special mold, that slam into you like a Mack truck and leave you scrambling to finish the heart-pounding race through the pages, because you can't possibly rest until you know what happens next. Until you have the knowledge that the characters that have wedged into your heart are, at long last, safe and sound.

This was an angsty doozy, even without the explicit details played out onscreen as the hints and my imagination more than filled in the gaps. Hurt/comfort at its finest as a gentle love story weaves together underneath it all.

While I would've loved for certain angles to have been fleshed out more (e.g. Liam's background - the reasoning behind his parents' unwillingness to pay for his education felt rather flimsy), it didn't detract from how the writing flowed with an ease that made it incredibly smooth to consume - even if the content itself was not all butterflies and rainbows. I look forward to the future stories this author has in store!