A review by shane_the_reading_rat
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran

5.0

yknow sometimes i worry that i give too many 5 star ratings out but who cares!! this is my storygraph and i can do what i want!!
this book was awesome. took a bit for me to get into, but at a point it becomes very 'Hell Followed With Us' which was super cool. also the atmosphere was amazing :))
im now going to just drop several quotes to try and convince you to read this:

Sometimes we need people to hunt the things inside of us that need to die but that we aren't ready to kill.

"I don't think I know what it means to be a girl," I say. "so nothing ever felt too weird, because everything always is weird."

"The future is trans. The future is nonbinary. The future is soup."

I am not a boy or a girl. Do you know the shape of water? Do you know clouds, and mountains, or every bud of wisteria at the height of spring? Your eyes follow me but you've never really seen me.

gonna be honest, that final quote is one of my favorite quotes ever (also really hits me hard with having recently figured out that i'm genderqueer. man this book overall hit hard)