A beautiful and raw love story that will challenge the way we think about life and death, fate and consequences. The Beginning and End of Everything provocatively explores the human side of love, grief, and depression. Her love was peace in his silent war. When I was ten years old, Brandon O’Kieffe stole my heart. When I was sixteen, he broke it. At twenty-four, he pieced me back together while … pieced me back together while carving scars on my heart. I thought my love was enough to save him, but some demons consume the soul.
He was and always would be, the beginning and end of everything.
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“There is so much that’s wrong between us, an ocean of loss and heartbreak, anger and sorrow, but I need him. I’ve needed him since I was ten years old.”
This….book!!!!! This is an incredibly beautiful, tragic, heartbreaking story peppered with fantastically real and detailed characters portraying what it is to be broken after the unimaginable happens. Now even more so with the additions the Authors made from the previous book. I cried, I cheered, I felt dread in the pit of my stomach when I realized what may have been coming, but the Authors gifted an absolutely sincere approach that just ripped my heart out. I fell in love with these characters so hard, they were so believable, and I became so invested in their lives.
“I’m in love with a man I’ve known my entire life, but there’s this darkness to him that no light will ever find its way into. A part of him that was created in an attempt to survive, but now, I worry there is nothing that will help him survive himself.”
A real look into PTSD, and loving someone regardless of flaws, in spite of your own pain, and wanting their peace more than you want to keep breathing. This story will stay with me for a long time, utterly unforgettable. I thank the Authors profusely for allowing me to voluntarily review!
~~~Erika, Book Haven Book Blog
Wow try writing a review for this without tears streaming down your face!!!
“This isn’t goodbye,only see you later”
Life is not always easy and the choices we make and the paths we choose to take are what makes us or breaks us and there’s nothing more true than the story within the pages of this book .
A heartbreaking story of love ,life and devastating grief .
Hold those loved ones a little tighter ,you never know what life has in store.
As I’m writing that review, I am still trying to hold back the tears I know will come at some point.
L.P Lovell and Stevie J. Cole are an amazing duo of authors. They write seamlessly and brought out astounding emotions.
In The Beginning and The End of Everything they wrote a tragic tale with such beauty and power I know that book will stay with me forever.
From the beginning I knew it would be a tough story that will touch me deeply and that is exactly what I found in this book.
Love. Pure and undiluted love. Unconditional love. I smiled and my guts twisted. It was sweet and most of all raw. It felt real and I loved along Connor, Poppy and Brandon. From the first pages I fell in love with those kids and as they grew up, I felt like I grew up too. The pain, the guilt, the conflict were palpable. The illness, brutal and insidious, devastated me. Slowly, but also so fast, their descent to hell was haunting. Remarkable in it’s execution and with a brilliant justesse and finesse, that story is one who deserves to be told and most importantly to be heard. Thank you for that, thank you for them.
I loved the collaboration of Authors Stevie J. Cole and Lauren Lovell, their talent for drawing you in and feeling the heartbeats of the characters as if it were your own; the anguish, hurt, love, rage, compassion, and happiness. I loved the friendships that were formed between Brandon, Conner and Poppy, friendships and bonds that can’t be torn apart by the horrors of life and death. I hate what war and PTSD does to individuals and those they love. This was only a fictional glimpse of what is suffered by too many. Our words of thanks to those that have/are served/serving in the military seem so small for all that they give. When you want to rate a book a 1 but you know it deserves a 7 … equals 5 solid stars.
The Beginning and End of Everything – whenever you hear I’m sorry ma’am it probably isn’t going to be good news.
Wow this book is pretty deep and dark and not in the corrupt dark way but in a mental dark way.
I so get the meaning of the title of this book now and man did you ever explore “love, grief and depression”. Damn you both Stevie J. Cole and Lauren Lovell and I mean that in a good way. You made me feel. You made me cry. You made me cry an ugly cry.
I think this is a story that needs to be told and I am sure that what happens in this book happens more than we would ever want it too. There is so much I would talk about but can’t because then that would be a spoil this story.
The Beginning and End of Everything will take you on a roller coaster journey of emotions, “love, grief and depression”. 5 + STARS.