Just finished reading this book again for the second time, and remember now why I don't like this book. I hate the ending. I hate it like Mad Madam Mim hates sunlight. It isn't fair. And yeah, I know the old saw about how life ain't fair, but love is the only thing that makes life worth living. And so few get to know real, true, soul-deep love. Jake and Sadie knew it, knew it very well, and to have fate or time or plain old ka tear them apart was just so cruel.
But then, ka brought them back together, didn't it? Maybe some things really are meant to be. In their own time. In the right time.
Think about it. Sadie never remarried, and probably never opened up to another man the way she did Jake. There is no indication of it, at least. And some part of her knows Jake still. Who's to say they didn't rekindle their romance? It wouldn't be impossible, not in this day and age.
It's a nice thought, anyway. A little what-if.