Petra's Reviews > Always to Remember

I loved this book. What will really stay with me for a long time is our wonderful hero.
Clay is a man who walks to the sound of his own drum. He is a thoughtful pacifist living in the most conservative setting during civil war.
Meg is a traditional woman in this community who sees honor in fighting.
Clay is total outsider not willing to change his views just to fit in. Meg could not have been more opposite of him. She is respectable, young widow in her village.
On a large scale the book is about how people ideologies separate us and make others into alien beings.
On a personal scale - this is a beautiful love story of a hero who has been shunned from human company and has never been close to a woman and on the other side a woman who knew wonderful love and passion but lost it. Their private time together in a beautiful Texas setting are some of the most romantic scenes I read.
I will always fondly remember Clay. He is a quiet artist and the most courageous hero ever.

The only downside of this book was watching Clay having to constantly humble himself and get beat up because of his convictions.
But it all works out at the end