Review of Beneath the Indigo Sky

by Rayne Hawthorne & D.W. Michaels

Beneath the Indigo Sky by Rayne Hawthorne | My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Oh. Beneath the Indigo Sky is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. I wish I could read it again for the first time. It’s beautiful, wonderful. Every word able to pull out emotions and make my heart break and put itself back together in ways I rarely feel when reading these days.

Beneath the Indigo Sky is the sort of book you read until it makes you tear up and you have to put it down so you can savor the feeling. It hurts so perfectly. So pure. That sounds wild, I know, but it’s true. I was brought to tears several times, more than several times if I’m being honest, and had to stop reading to allow myself time to process the emotions it brought out in me. But it wasn’t a bad thing, the complete opposite in fact.

Despite a large part of the book being about grief and the process of grieving, the overall message was so bright, so optimistic, that it was like the book made it okay to feel all the things. The process was safe. And all those dark feelings, those feelings you feel in the moment that make it seem that you’re never going to come out the other side of whatever you’re going through, whatever it is that has you down in a hole, it gave those emotions a safe place to live because there was no doubt that regardless of how you feel, you were in fact going to be okay.

“Future’s Gonna Be Okay” Agust D in D-Day

The book was one huge message of “Future’s gonna be okay.”

Agust-D Feels

In fact, there’s another Agust D song that really, really embodies the way this book made me feel at times, and that’s Snooze. So let’s take a moment and listen to that song. I’ll post the video below.

Jayce

It might have been hard for Jayce to believe that, at times. That he was going to be okay. That he was going to come through his hardship and end up in a better place. Jayce is broken, in such a dark place, and Namid can be there for him in just the way he needs, a presence that is unimposing, not pitying, just there for him. Maybe he really was sent just for him.

I felt Jayce’s grief, as I read the beginning of the book. I felt his darkness, the hole he was trapped in, the bleakness. It was there inside me just like it was in him.

I felt like Namid.

Namid

What a beautiful, mystical person, Namid. Namid is mystery and grace. He’s an empath who feels everything, legit everything that people around him feel, but he has never felt love of his own. I ached for him, as he fell for Jayce. I pined, longed and dreamed alongside him for them to realize their feelings. It was clear that Jayce was too bogged down in his grief to realize what was happening, but it was evident to the reader that the only thing that could bring him through that dark tunnel of grief was such an all-encompassing love.

Lucky

I’m so incredibly thankful I got the chance to read this book. I can’t say it strongly enough, read this one as soon as you can get your hands on it. It’s truly spectacular.

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