Petya’s Reviews > A Guardian and a Thief > Status Update

"The depth of night always felt adjacent to real life, a fourth dimension of the world that allowed the honesty and courage that daylight forbade. Perhaps it was that the moon and stars reminded people of their finite lives in the margins of the universe’s story—what did it matter what human beings did or didn’t do? Or perhaps it was only the clock losing its tether to the day’s routines and yielding to pure time."

Peer pressure won, so I'm reading this after all. Indeed, the audiobook I started listening to while dozing off last night has misled me, it seems. I do like the writing, but I'm immensely triggered by this family and their carelessness and foolishness. Left the window open?? Handbag next to the bed?! You serious?! And their desperate attempts to have others then help them out of their misery. Let's see what happens.