SynopsisI live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.
Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity, her spirit, her will to live—pay.
Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.
Everyone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. 
But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to. The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
Summary
Nastya died for one moment and her life changed forever. The young piano prodigy lost her hand, her body and her talent. So she decided to wall herself into silence not to lie to those she loves.
Then she meets Josh, a young man accustomed to be left who does not want to get attach anymore. Together, they will learn how to be whole and live again. Reactions
This book is a beauty, a marvel ...
Emotions are intense, extremes.
The author speaks of death, loss, hopelessness and it hits you in the heart. It is so tragic that it's beautiful. It's so beautiful, it hurts.
A must read!
After reading the synopsis, I imagined diving into a fantasy novel. I really do not know why since from the first lines, the author announce that there will be no superheroes or magic formulas. Of course, once immersed in the reality of the first lines with a main character that refuses to speak, I wondered where I had fallen.
But I was intrigued after having the reader's privileges to heard all her inside thoughts.
From the start, the mechanisms of self-defense, employed by Nastya not to be approached or loved, made me smile. Maybe because the best defense is attack and those who have suffered at one time in their lives have resorted to such tactics...
Her suffering is visible, palpable. Her silent cries for help are obvious even if the heroine defends herself from needing being rescued.
But nothing is surjouée (overplayed) everything is beautifully proportioned. The more she hides, the more the reader wants to discover her inner secrets. Her way of life is devoid of hope, but full of beautiful crappy philosophy.
However, Josh moved me the greatest. Perhaps because the absence, emptiness and his fear to be left alone, when everyone knows that the loss is inevitable, were emotions that just rang too true in my ears. His personality and his love for working with woods made him the character of my heart. Even if there is very little action, Katja Millay knew how to capture and keep my attention from the beginning to the ending of her splendid story about second chances and the importance of living life to its fullest.
If you had told me there was no twists, no real action in this novel but that I'll love it... I would have been septic. I would have probably skip this story.
But I'd missed out a beautiful freely flow of words, phrases, sensations and emotions.
It is sad. The feelings are raw. The thoughts are depressing about some concepts that people generally refuses to explore if one is not touched by misfortune. But it's never suffocating.
The humour is wry, awesome.
This book has a power, a force that makes you want to keep hope and tell you that despite your everyday worries, life is really worth living .
Hope in box to open when you're down!
From Nastya: "If self-adoration were cologne, he would be the boy you couldn't stand next to without choking."
From Nastya: "I decline the coffee. I don't drink it, because no matter how much sugar I put into it, it is still tastes like ass-water to me."
From Nastya: "It doesn't matter if you do everything right, if you dress the right way act the right way and follow all the rules, because evil will find you anyway."
From Nastya: "And I'd feel like screaming and telling them that I had paid it the same as everyone else in the room, I just didn't feel like waiving around my receipt."
From Nastya: "It amazes me how people are so afraid of what can happen in the dark, but they don't give a second thought about their safety during the day, as if the sun offers some sort of ultimate protection from all the evil in the world."
From Nastya: "Bad things happen all the time; they don't wait until after dinner."
From Josh: "People must know that just because you need to eat doesn't mean you want them coming by your house nonstop, using casserole dishes and coffee cakes as an excuse to eavesdrop on your grief."
From Josh: "An then she's right in front of me and all at once her mother says, "Emilia", and Asher says, "Em", and her father says, "Milly" and Drew says, "Nastya", and I say, "Sunshine", and then she shatters."
From Josh: "No one ever asks. Like they think they're doing me a favor. That if they don't bring it up, I won't have to think about it. I never stop thinking about it. Just because I don't talk about it doesn't mean I forget. I don't talk about it because no one ever ask."
From Josh: "Now I understand why she spent so much time running. I want to run away, too. I want to drop her and fling the door open and not look back, because I can't do this. I'm not strong enough, not brave enough, not conforting enough. I'm not enought. I'm no one's salvation. Not even my own.
But I'm here and so is she and I can't let go."
THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY
BY KATJA MILLAY
Traduction du synopsis
Je vis dans un monde sans magie et sans miracle. Un endroit où il n'y a pas de voyants ou de métamorphes, pas d'anges ou de garçons surhumains pour vous sauver. Un endroit où les gens meurent, où la musique se désintègre et où les choses craignent. Je suis pressée si fort contre la terre par le poids de la réalité que certains jours, je me demande comment je suis encore capable de soulever mes pieds pour marcher.
L'ancienne prodige du piano, Nastya Kashnikov veut deux choses: parvenir à survivre le lycée sans que personne n'apprenne son passé et faire que le garçon qui lui a tout pris: son identité, son esprit, sa volonté de vivre, paye. L'histoire de Josh Bennett n'est pas un secret...Toutes les personnes qu'il aime lui ont été prises de sa vie jusqu'à ce qu'à dix-sept ans, il ne reste personne. Maintenant, tout ce qu'il veut, c'est qu'on le laisse tranquille et les gens l'y autorise parce que quand votre nom est synonyme de mort, tout le monde a tendance à vous donner de l'espace.
Lorsque leur relation s'intensifie et que les questions sans réponse commencent à s'accumuler, il commence à se demander s'il pourra un jour percer les secrets qu'elle cache - ou s'il en a vraiment envie.
The Sea of Tranquility est une histoire riche, intense, et brillamment imaginée à propos d'un garçon solitaire, d'une jeune fille fragile émotionnellement et du miracle d'une deuxième chance.
Résumé
Nastya est morte l'espace d'un instant et sa vie a basculé. La jeune prodige du piano a perdu sa main, son corps, son talent et décide de se murer dans le silence pour ne pas mentir à ceux qu'elle aime. Puis, elle rencontre Josh, un jeune homme habitué a être quitté, qui ne veut plus s'attacher. Ensemble, ils vont réapprendre à vivre.
Impressions
Ce livre est une beauté, une petite merveille...
Les émotions sont intenses, extrêmes. L'auteur parle de la mort, de la perte, de l'absence d'espoir et ça vous touche en plein coeur.
C'est tellement tragique que c'est magnifique. C'est tellement beau que ça fait mal.
Un livre incontournable!
A la lecture du synopsis, je me suis imaginée plonger dans un histoire de fantasy. Je ne sais vraiment pas pourquoi puisque les premières lignes vous annoncent qu'il n'y aura pas de super héros ou de formules magiques. Forcément une fois plongée dans la réalité des premières lignes avec un personnage principale qui refuse de parler et dont on entend toutes les pensées, je me suis demandée où j'étais tombée. Mais j'étais intriguée.
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Dès le début les mécanismes d'auto-défense employés par Nastya pour ne pas être approchée, aimée m'ont fait sourire. Peut-être parce que la meilleur défense reste l'attaque et que ceux qui ont souffert à un moment de leur vie ont eu recours à ces stratagèmes.
Sa souffrance est visible, palpable. Ses appels à l'aide sautent aux yeux même si l'héroïne s'en défend mais rien n'est surjouée tout est magnifiquement dosée. Plus elle se cache, plus le lecteur veut la découvrir. Sa manière de voir la vie est dénuée d'espoir mais plein de philosophie.
Pourtant, c'est Josh qui m'a ému. Peut-être parce que l'absence, le vide, la peur de s'attacher, quand on sait que la perte est inévitable, sont des émotions qui ont sonné trop juste à mes oreilles pour ne pas qu'il devienne le personnage auquel je me suis le plus attachée.
Très peu d'action et pourtant Katja Millay a su comment capter et garder mon attention du début à la fin de sa splendide histoire sur les deuxièmes chances et l'importance de vivre sa vie pleinement.
Si l'on m'avait dit: il n'y a pas de rebondissements, pas vraiment d'action mais tu vas adoré. J'aurais été septique.
Mais je serais passée à côté d'une fluidité des mots, des phrases, des sensations et des émotions.
C'est triste. Les sentiments sont à vif avec des pensées déprimantes sur des concepts que l'on se refuse généralement à explorer si l'on est pas touché par le malheur. Pourtant, ce n'est jamais suffoquant.
Ecrit avec beaucoup d'humour, c'est grinçant.
Ce livre est d'une puissance, d'une force qui vous donne envie de garder espoir et de vous dire que malgré vos tracas du quotidien, la vie vaut vraiment la peine d'être vécue.
De l'espoir en boite!
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