# @proseandpucks on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvOVQwbr7NI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33316777-proseandpucks-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-07-28T02:16:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Miracle (@miraclelucketti) — https://gondola.cc/miraclelucketti

## Caption

do you ever finish a book and just not know how to move on after having read it? that's this book (and honestly, the honeys, too). 

a tangled web of grief, the guilt we carry, and the fear of not being good enough, ryan la sala manages to make mirrors and how we see ourselves into the stuff of nightmares.

i never REALLY knew what was happening, and when i suspected i did, i was close but the reveal was much worse (in the absolute best way). i don't think i have ever talked out loud more to myself when reading a book, because i was so INVESTED to what was happening to athan and dom.

the alternating pov chapters were brilliant and terrifying, and it worked so well. from about chapter 20 on you will not be able to stop reading (and in my case, crying). it was fast paced, heart pounding, page turning until the end. and that ENDING.

my heart still hasn't recovered and if i think too long about it, the tearing up starts all over again.

first bees, now mirrors- what else will ryan la sala make me scared of?

we read this as a group chat and the frantic messages into the wee hours of the morning as we all slowly pieced things together will forever be one of my favorite book related experiences. meganstags, laurentheboring, and visst0pher and i are forever changed.

[id: a white woman in a green dress stands in front of a white background. a round mirror covers her face, reflecting back a bookshelf organized by color. she’s holding a copy of ryan la sala’s beholder]
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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| Miracle | @miraclelucketti | https://gondola.cc/miraclelucketti | Digital Creator |

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