![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a very sad and haunting narrative and there aren’t a lot of hopeful moments even the ending still made my heart ache. This could have of course been my bad, but I was not prepared for the bleakness and the many triggers that were within this book. One is the perhaps misleading foreword in which the author states that this isn’t a book about queer pain but what queer people do with that pain. I do have two caveats with the novel, though. You’re sitting on pins and needles while reading this book and even if you’re like me and guess most of the plot twists (which, by the way, has never happened before, I am epically bad at guessing correctly), the writing alone will make this an unforgettable reading experience. There’s a sense of immediacy and anxiety underlying the current of the plot and at times, I had to physically put down the book because the descriptions made my heart speed up. Sass takes his time describing Connor’s hometown and the conversion camp in harrowing detail and it works so well with this story. The writing was by far my favorite part of this novel. People have compared this to The Hunger Games and though I hesitate to agree with that, I do feel like the writing is one of the reasons why this would make an excellent movie. Let me start off by saying that this was an action-packed and immersive thriller that I would bet money on that it will someday be turned into a movie. You want to read a book that will actually influence your heart rate.You like atmospheric and creepy writing. ![]()
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