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Amethyst, The Shallows is the companion novel to Kellye Abernathy's The Aquamarine Surfboard. Amethyst is a beautiful book whose main characters are tight-knit friends from a beachside town. These friends each share an interest in the backdrop to the story - the ocean. Although they share this passion, they each bring their own personality and individualism to the story - which is something I truly appreciated from Abernathy as I am a character-driven reader...through and through.
In this particular story, we see the friends as they emerge from the truly transformative experience of having been through "The Sickness" - a life event that has caused them to lose loved ones. What I enjoyed the most from Amethyst was that along with the beauty we get from the story's magical realism "background" - we get the true-to-life experience of grief and how our characters move forward with feeling grief. Since losing someone myself, I find grief in fiction to be even more fascinating than it already was. Abernathy does a wonderful job of creating this story for young (and older) readers a like that is not only entertaining, but heartfelt as well.
I recommend this read to all readers as I think we could all take something from a tale of friendship, whimsy, and love.
In this particular story, we see the friends as they emerge from the truly transformative experience of having been through "The Sickness" - a life event that has caused them to lose loved ones. What I enjoyed the most from Amethyst was that along with the beauty we get from the story's magical realism "background" - we get the true-to-life experience of grief and how our characters move forward with feeling grief. Since losing someone myself, I find grief in fiction to be even more fascinating than it already was. Abernathy does a wonderful job of creating this story for young (and older) readers a like that is not only entertaining, but heartfelt as well.
I recommend this read to all readers as I think we could all take something from a tale of friendship, whimsy, and love.
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