Review: The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

About the book:   
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Published by: Candlewick Press, March 27, 2014
Genre: YA, magical realism, (awesome? is that a genre?)
Pages:  301 pages


''Love makes us such fools''
 
Synopsis: 
«Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird.»
Usually I do my own interpretation of the synopsis, but for this book, I'll just put the goodreads synopsis because this book just overwhelms me.  
 

My thoughts: 
This is one of my favorite book of the year... Scratch that I think it is my favorite book of the year, of even... of all time. THERE ... I SAID IT! This book was... wow. At first I was not sure about it.. I was reading it... and I was afraid I was going to be disappointed. HAHAAHA I was a fool. I lied to myself even because it's not the kind of book I usually read I told myself, I won't like this book, it will take me forever to read it.... I read it in a night... litterally. For the first... 5 pages I was like yeah... this book is not for me i'll just put it down after this page...and I just kept reading... until there was just one page left and then i read this page too... and after I just stared at the wall and replayed the story over and over in my mind... I even considered to read it again as soon as I closed the book. I still, to that day, think about this book and I'm just overwhelmed. This book is a piece of art.  This book is everything I ever hoped for. I'd like to thank Leslye Walton... I'd like to thank Leslye Walton's parents for giving birth to such an amazing writer. This book was amazing. if the beautiful cover doesn't get you, the story will. 


My rating: 6/ 5 stars (if I could)
Who should read that book: the entire population of planet Earth. Scratch that... the entire population of the solar system.. I'm looking at you martians.. I'll send you the book if I need to. 
 
About the author: 
«Leslye Walton was born in the Pacific Northwest. Perhaps because of this, Leslye has developed a strange kinship with the daffodil--she too can only achieve beauty after a long, cold sulk in the rain. Her debut novel, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, was inspired by a particularly long sulk in a particularly cold rainstorm spent pondering the logic, or rather, lack thereof, in love.

Leslye has an MA in writing and lives in Seattle, Washington. When she's not writing, she teaches middle school students how to read and write, and most importantly, how to be kind to each other, even on days when they really don't feel like it. She is currently working on her next novel.»