The Gravity of Us (Elements #4) by Brittainy C Cherry
5 stars!!!!
“Loving Lucy Hope Palmer wasn’t a choice; it was my destiny.”
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Every single time I read a Brittainy Cherry book I am overcome with emotion, this woman makes my head and heart hurt, my eyes leak like a faucet and every single emotional bone in my body knows it has been touched…well not touched…hammered more like. Brittainy Cherry is a virtuoso with her deep, thought provoking writing and a total master with her bone deep character connection. A connection that doesn’t simply apply to our hero and heroine, no every single character had depth and meaning and there wasn’t a spare part in the whole book. Everyone had their part to play and they played it like a philharmonic orchestra. This book was breath-taking from start to finish. An un-put-down-able read. An unforgettable read. Once again, I was played by the maestro and while she put me back together again, the journey was well trodden.
“Sometimes when your heart wanted a full-length novel, the world only gave you a novella, and sometimes when you wanted forever you only had those few seconds of now.”
The Gravity of Us is a masterclass of writing, phenomenal, stunningly beautiful, poetic, honest, emotional and inspirational. This box ticked all my boxes and then added a few more for good measure. So incredibly touching and heart felt and all these emotions centred around one of the most beautiful, caring, considerate, generous and benevolent heroines I have ever read about. I don’t mean this in a monetary way, our heroine gave someone way bigger…herself. Every single part, love, time, inspiration, compassion, trust and empathy to name a few. Lucille is a character that rooted herself into my heart and soul and she will never leave, nor will I want her to.
“I thought I’d been in love before. I thought I knew what love was. I thought I understood its curves, its angles, its shape. But then, I kissed you… And I realized you were the first and only thing that ever made my heartbeats come to life.”
Lucille Hope Palmer was one of three sisters, the one that most resembled their mother. Lucille had that weird hippie vibe, in so far as she was a free spirit, constantly happy, saw the best in everything and everyone and was one with herself and the world around her. Lucille was the glue to the Palmer family, none more so than once their mother passed. But sometimes, glue isn’t enough and even with Lucy’s positivity and self-sacrificing nature, people needed to make their own mistakes, knowing that Lucy would always be there to pick up the pieces.
“Heartbreak took love and mutilated it, humiliated it, scarred it. Heartbreak slowly began to freeze heartbeats that had once been so welcoming to love.”
Graham Russell is a New York Times best-selling author, he is rich in everything bar his heart. Graham has been hurt time and time again, everyone he loves leaves and as a result has made him cold, detached and impassive. Devoid of love and compassion, extremely blunt, cynical and sarcastic to a fault and with brutal honesty, Graham pushes everyone way, content on his emotionless island until someone shows him what he is missing. This is no quick fix, no instant cure. This is perseverance, this is whittling away unwittingly, this is like taking an ice pick to a glacier. It takes someone strong willed, dedicated, cool, calm and collected to deal with Graham’s barbs and dry sense of humour, but Lucy is unperturbed, she sees the man behind the glacial eyes, she sees the fleeting flickers and these are the only encouragement she needs.
“She was the girl who felt everything, and I was the man who felt nothing at all.”
Graham and Lucy’s journey is far from the norm, it is a battle from the very beginning, but sometimes the heart knows when something or someone is worth fighting for. Despite the odds, even Mount Everest was conquered, now it was Graham Russell’s turn. There were many landslides, many crevices to navigate, many faces to climb, but the summit was breath-taking, unforgettable. Once again, Brittainy Cherry delivered something tangible, I lived and breathed this book, I felt every word, every sentence, every chapter. Brittainy Cherry is the master manipulator of emotions and I don’t ever want her to change. Another fantastic read and I cannot wait for the next one.
“If you need to fall, fall into me.”
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Beautiful story
I'm not sure what, precisely, I thought I was going to read when I downloaded this to my kindle, but what I read wasn't it - in a great way! This was my first Brittainy Cherry book, and it won't be my last.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5This was SO much more than just a romance book. We have the fractured relationship between Lucy and her sisters, the fractured relationship Graham has with his deceased father, the fractured relationship between Graham and Jane. There's friendship between Graham and Ollie which until Lucy, is the only nontoxic relationship he's had as an adult. The friendship that develops between our MCs, Lucy and Graham. The love between Graham and his infant daughter, and between Lucy and Graham's daughter.This book is when you want your feels. I felt every chapter of this in my bones. This a story about love and healing, and how people come into our lives for a reason. Ms. Cherry's words have a lyrical quality to them that lent a certain beauty to this story.If you are looking for spice, this isn't it - there is so much going on, and yes there is yearning and tension, and an eventual resolution to all that tension, but I would give this half a spicy rating; it's a very brief, not super descriptive open door in 1 scene. It didn't need more. It was perfect as is.
