Book Review – Take Me to Heaven by Adina Grey

A charming and romantic novella, Take Me to Heaven is sure to capture the hearts of fans of drama and romantic fiction. The story is deep and rich, heavily driven by dialogue rather than a sludgy narrative where every character’s every thought is analyzed and explained in detail, leaving the reader tired and overwhelmed. Take Me to Heaven is written from the perspective of the main character, Major Katherine Miller, as she is courted by Lieutenant Logan Reed of the US Army while also separating from her husband Jason. The dialogue is lean and concise but complete, and the emotions felt by the characters come through in the rich banter.

This is a new and modern take on the classic American love story. Nothing is simple, and the complex lives of the characters lead the romance through twists and turns that will delight and surprise the reader. The playful dialogue is executed through the use of modern messaging technology, and the story unfolds in ways that will resonate with the modern romantic. Short and sweet, this novella can be read through in under three hours, even for the casual reader, and its charm should stick with the reader in a way that begs a second or even third read.

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A Poem

This isn’t what it seems

And never what it was

But it takes the things you think

To make sense of them because

Every mind is different

Every soul unique

And as you go it grows with you

And falls when your heart sinks

So read it when you need it

And let it be for you

But remember that the answers

From inside are true

Las Almas Perdidas Juntas

Su amor y sus vidas se separaron y se desplazaron a su lugar

Sus corazones crecieron demasiado y se encerraron el uno en el otro

Y nada mas podría romper el mayor lazo

Entre dos almas amantes que anhelaban encontrar

Intactos juntos

Todo lo malo se ha ido

Reemplazó la destrucción con lo que siempre supe que era mío

Their love and lives apart were always drifting into place

Their hearts both grew to enormous size and locked them outside space

And nothing in existence could ever break the biggest bind

Between two lovers souls that each the other longed to find

Unbroken together


And all the bad aside

Replaced destruction with the thing I always knew was mine

END

To See What Was Always There

In darkness hid the frame

Sunlight pre-natal

Transparent glassy crystal glare
Trapped the scaffold matrix there

No time to start
No end to see
Just always in between

Spectrum spread to barely hide
The nothing everything inside
Inside too many hearts
Inside hearts laying down beside
Beside the broken parts

Though broken never damaged
The white has now become
Expanse diverse and all unbound
Unbound and self contained
With all in window pane
Every color and all between
The eyes would fall to catch them all
In all no end there to be found

The friction of the hearts
His on hers
Or hers with his
Though always something new
And greater than the sum
Unveils something they’ve done
And opens up the tear
To show them all the thing
To let them see what was always there

FIN


South

My road would rise

And climb to heights

Under the blue

My shadow dropped

And pulled to make its flight

As bloody red

Streaked across the sky

And I met you on the horizon

As day turned into night

The wild nights with you

Were short but all divine

Then summer faded

The heat was lost in time

So I went south with you

To recapture all the things

We thought we’d never find

To Love The Beast

Hidden Beauties under scars and shame

The world’s most lovely though none the same

They listen, ride, and share the story

Of the one they loved

And tried to tame

When in love, they shared his strength

And every one he allowed to use

So he, The Beast, could roar

But when his roar comes to pierce the sky

The hidden Beauties veils will fly

Uncover what he always knew

Uncover truth

Uncover beauty and bring life anew

The Joker cries

The roaring dies

The Beast that would not tame

Becomes what they

The Beauties claim

To love them most…

For them To Love The Beast…

Is greater than living all the lives of every living ghost

A Step Above

There are times, she said
Times for what you want and times to stay in bed
After the morning, the time belongs to the sun
And what you think that you wanted turns its head to run
The sun it keeps revolving
The cycle it makes from the ground
Only seems to be on its own
But its so much more profound

It passes at night
In your head all delight
Make it so when you need it
When it pulls you
When you’re blinded by light

And if another might stand in the way
If you know when you wake that you have nothing to say
Leave it inside to find a place there to stay

Watch and take note
Watch it cut, let it carve

She tells me at the end you’ll know more than she wrote

Take back your time and let the roots hold up what grows

FIN