SYNOPSIS
She said
I was like a song. Her favorite song. A song isn’t something you can see. It’s
something you feel, something you move to, something that disappears after the
last note is played.
I won my first fight when I was eleven years old, and I’ve been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. Some people describe heaven as a sea of unending white. Where choirs sing and loved ones await. But for me, heaven was something else. It sounded like the bell at the beginning of a round, it tasted like adrenaline, it burned like sweat in my eyes and fire in my belly. It looked like the blur of screaming crowds and an opponent who wanted my blood.
For me, heaven was the octagon.
Until I met Millie, and heaven became something different. I became something different. I knew I loved her when I watched her stand perfectly still in the middle of a crowded room, people swarming, buzzing, slipping around her, her straight dancer’s posture unyielding, her chin high, her hands loose at her sides. No one seemed to see her at all, except for the few who squeezed past her, tossing exasperated looks at her unsmiling face. When they realized she wasn’t normal, they hurried away. Why was it that no one saw her, yet she was the first thing I saw?
If heaven was the octagon, then she was my angel at the center of it all, the girl with the power to take me down and lift me up again. The girl I wanted to fight for, the girl I wanted to claim. The girl who taught me that sometimes the biggest heroes go unsung and the most important battles are the ones we don’t think we can win.
I won my first fight when I was eleven years old, and I’ve been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. Some people describe heaven as a sea of unending white. Where choirs sing and loved ones await. But for me, heaven was something else. It sounded like the bell at the beginning of a round, it tasted like adrenaline, it burned like sweat in my eyes and fire in my belly. It looked like the blur of screaming crowds and an opponent who wanted my blood.
For me, heaven was the octagon.
Until I met Millie, and heaven became something different. I became something different. I knew I loved her when I watched her stand perfectly still in the middle of a crowded room, people swarming, buzzing, slipping around her, her straight dancer’s posture unyielding, her chin high, her hands loose at her sides. No one seemed to see her at all, except for the few who squeezed past her, tossing exasperated looks at her unsmiling face. When they realized she wasn’t normal, they hurried away. Why was it that no one saw her, yet she was the first thing I saw?
If heaven was the octagon, then she was my angel at the center of it all, the girl with the power to take me down and lift me up again. The girl I wanted to fight for, the girl I wanted to claim. The girl who taught me that sometimes the biggest heroes go unsung and the most important battles are the ones we don’t think we can win.
**This is David ‘Tag’ Taggert's book, a
supporting character introduced in The Law of Moses. This is a
stand-alone story.
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FIVE HUGE EMOTIONALLY FILLED STARS
The most
intimate thing we can do is to allow the people we love most to see us at our
worst.
One thing you
should know, and don’t kill me, but I haven’t not read Law of Moses. I know, I
know -- Shameful. However, when I saw this book, it’s beautiful cover and it’s
intriguing synopsis, I couldn’t pass it up. I mean. Its Amy Harmon for cripes
sake! I couldn’t pass it up. What a beautiful story…
You
can’t see a song. You feel a song, you hear a song, you move to it. Just like I
can’t see you, but I feel you, and I move toward you. When you’re with me, I
feel like I glimpse a David nobody else knows is there. It’s the Song of David,
and nobody else can hear it but me.
There were so
many things I absolutely loved about this book. It was flawless, if I can tell
you the truth. The Hero, Tag, is totally swoon-worthy. He’s strong, yet, when
his sensitive side comes out, he makes my heart pound (yes, pun intended). As
for the heroine, Millie, I absolutely loved her. She’s one the strongest
heroines I’ve ever met. She’s fierce, loyal and so loving. Her younger brother
Henry is so blessed to have her. And speaking of Henry…OMG…what a beautiful
character; he added so much to the already emotional story.
My story
might not end in a miracle. But I’m eager for an ending, so I’ll take the
miracles along the way and avoid the ending all together. I’ve discovered I
don’t have to see what’s in front of me to keep going. Millie taught me that.
Perks of
loving a blind girl.
This is one of
those stories that will stick with you long after you’re done reading it. As
soon as I finished, I had to message Ms. Harmon to tell her how much I loved
it. I was a hot mess when it ended, but I’m glad she ended it where it ended
because to me it was perfect. This story will make you cry and make you take
deep breaths just because you feel like your heart will explode.
As I stated in
the beginning, I have not read Law of Moses, which will be remedied soon. This
can most definitely be considered a standalone, but might spoil things for you
if you haven’t read Moses & Georgia’s story (though it won’t deter me from
reading it).
FINAL THOUGHTS:
PICK THIS BOOK UP! I will never tire of Ms. Harmon’s stories. Just outright
brilliant.
Loving
her wasn’t unpardonable either. But loving her and letting her down…that was
unpardonable to me. That was unforgiveable. That was the part I struggled with.
