Snow's Reviews > One Day Soon

3.5 YOSS stars

well, this will be unpopular oppinion I am sure BUT fuck it, when it doesn't work, it doesn't.
when it's not your moment, it's not... what can one do but state it clear!
It's me, totally and uterly me...

The story is hard, sad, and well very true, cause unfortuantely that kind of shitty life exists, and sometimes, most of the times we refuse to look at it, so we turn our heads away...

Praise for the boldness and for the delicate subject reference (homeless kids that are surviving any way they can)...it's not easy to see it through without being pathetic or overly dramatic and the author excellently pulled that one through.

what I had trouble with, was my own interaction between the past and the present of the characters' lives...
surprisingly enough, I could "see" and feel the relevance of the past events and I actually understood the presented and described events and emotions of the homeless children surviving, fighting to exist (although, i have never experienced it myself)...
BUT i never related to Yoss and Imi's "second chance" reunion. After 15 years of their absence in each other lives, the "emotions" that were highten at their tender ages of 16 and 18

When all i felt was love for the boy who kept me safe. The boy who tried to make me happy in the most miserable circumstances. Who held my hand and kissed me softly and made me feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

Even when I had nothing, he was everything.

could not hold the same "emotional span" in the mentioned present for them to just continue further on based on that.
There was a huge fucking gap of 15 years of fucked up shit in one's life (Yoss), more than in other one's (Imi), so I was pretty reluctant to just buy it as "the fate" and "the meant to be" kinda thing.
even when she says to him:

"I know who you are in here. I trusted the eighteen-year-old boy who made sure I was fed. Who protected me. Who loved me. And I trust the man he became. Sure, people can change, but I see who you are."

well, I must have missed that process myself.

I never fully related to Imogen's character.

Yossarian Frazer holds it all - he's the spine of the whole book, he's the roller coaster and wingwhirl and a calm after the storm in this case...his daily survival, fight and existence made the point of proving the ultimate sacrifice he unselfishly made to save the one he loved.

"You were better off without me, Imi."
But it's obvious I have barely survived without you.

Yoss gave up his own happiness while he vicariously lived through her's (in the life span of 15 years), seeing her happy meant HE made it.

"You're my happy life, Imi."

even when he was on the verge of hisown life fading... he never gave up on the fight for her happiness

"Can you give that to me? A promise to go on? Not just half living, but living to the fullest."
"I can promise to live the life we are supposed to have."
"Even if I'm not here."
"Even if you're not here."

Yoss's life story was better presented and described and if there wasn't a chapter near the end with his POV alone...the other parts of the book would not hold any merit, at all!

And i trusted...
In happily ever afters.
Because of the man who had given me my ONE DAY SOON.

so, it should have been MORE than Yoss, that deserve the attention BUT for me, it was just ok read... *shrugs*

BR with my guurls Shan Bam and Denise Release
I guess the mood and the timing wasn't on our side this time, ladies :)