The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.
Finished: April 2026
Feeling, out of Ten: 8 – and it earned the tears.
What Kind of Read: Makes you cry.
Who It’s For: Anyone who has loved someone and lost them to absence, to silence, to time.
Lines that came at me and stayed:
“You never know when you might need kindness from people.”
“There are things more important in this world than taking credit.”
“You never know what your last words to someone are going to be, and it’s hard to reconcile it when the deed is done and the person is gone.”
“And the dead don’t mind when we remember them and pass on their stories.”
“Hope is such a wonderful thing until it isn’t.”
“Even people who exude light and happiness have dark secrets.”
In a word: Unflinching and knows exactly where to press.