![]() And so begins Keturah's mission to find her true love and postpone her date with death. One more condition is that, if she can find her true love in that time, he must let her live a full life. Keturah distracts Lord Death by telling him a love story, however, she cleverly withholds the ending and promises only to tell it to him if he allows her another day to live. After days of wandering around and growing weaker and weaker, Lord Death eventually arrives for her. The story is about a young woman called Keturah who loses her way in the woods. ![]() I love stories like this, that capture the timeless magic of fairy tales and make you feel like you're reading a story that is centuries old even when it clearly isn't. But because of the beautiful, magical simplicity of the writing and the world and the characters. Not because of the love story, which I don't consider a spoiler because anyone with a brain will see it coming from the beginning (Or the cover. ![]() ![]() This book kind of stomped all over my heart. Each man, when he dies, sees the landscape of his own soul.” ![]()
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