A review by samlo28
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

3.0

there's no denying that this book is very well-written. there's essentially no plot, but the characters are so fully-realized that you kind of let that slide.

i do wish the characters lives intersected more or at least came together at the end in some way because while there are small interactions between characters, there isn't really enough to justify writing about all five of them. like, i get the premise of the book, but these could literally be any five people and it wouldn't really matter. i think adding a timeline in which the kids didn't survive the bombing would have made this book better.

trigger warnings:

Spoiler

hate crime resulting in death, white supremacy, implied sexual abuse of a minor, drug use, eating disorder (bulimia), misogyny, institutionalization for a mental illness, thoughts of cannibalism