A review by adhesivedolphin
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book. It's a series of short stories spanning out from a contagion that becomes a global pandemic. The characters run into earlier characters, which is a really neat way of showing how they change over time and how different perspectives of a situation/character. This is a story about loss. There's a lot of triggers around that, and how we deal with loss when it becomes an everyday thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Abandonment