Ranting and Reading Collective discussion

I read this in 2017 and it absolutely blew my mind, gave me a massive book hang over - I refused to believe those characters weren't real and I hadn't lived their lives with them. Its alive with chosen family and love and horror and terror and I cannot recommend everyone experience the book enough, despite not feeling I can entirely recommend the emotional rollercoaster.

That said, what I can't do is bring myself to re-read it! It has a very special place in my heart and put me in a reading slump for a year, I didn't believe a more perfect book could exist.

I know that sometimes its the book you need that finds you in the moment, and this was definitely one of those for me.

Well I've done it. I read it. I was so anxious because a) I know how much it means to some people and b) it comes with so many trigger warnings. Even about 7% in (love Kindle %) I was still apprehensive as I wasn't in the mood for some self indulgent art students (oh JB - I wish you weren't the character I identified with the most). But then I slowly found myself in another world. I don't read a lot of serious grown up books but when I do and it makes me utterly captivated I know that's good writing. You'll cry but you'll smile and laugh as well. And then cry again. Lots. But it's great.