Reviews - All the Colors of the Dark

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All the Colors of the Dark

Chris Whitaker

4.27 AVERAGE

spud4's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

emmaprew's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wow. This book was so completely out of my comfort zone but damn am I glad I gave it a shot. I don’t read thrillers, I don’t read crime, I rarely read what could be described as ‘literary’. I read this book mostly because of the beautiful cover design (UK edition) and because I wanted to do a buddy read with my friend Katie.

I was blown away.

The short, sharp chapters and jumping around between different scenes and characters was initially a bit of a shock to me but before too long I was gripped. Saint won me over almost immediately. Loved her so much throughout. And Patch. What to say about Patch… It’s complicated but the best characters are complicated.

What a captivating story this was, spanning so many years, so many twists and emotions throughout. It made me cry multiple times and had me glued to my Kindle wanting to find out what would happen next. There’s so many things that I didn’t see coming and so many things that upon their reveal seemed to make so much more sense to me. This is the rare kind of book that I want to read all over again, to be able to fully appreciate the intricacies of it all.

I’ve seen snippets of reviews that say this book stayed with them long after reading it and I think it will with me too. It was beautiful, but in such a dark and troubling way. You just have to read it yourself to see what I mean.

Also, this needs to be turned into a TV show. It’s the sort of show I absolutely would not usually watch (too real) but I’d watch this.