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A review by sargasso_c
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
5.0
This book is not for the faint of heart, it's barely for the moral. This is a book that challenges you and what you know to be true, this is a book that points fingers.
To date, I've not read a better book. As my introduction to Greenwood, this book made me feel all the ugly and wonderful and terrible and beautiful and complicated things. Each time I describe this book to someone I do it in a different way. Do I focus on the story of a resilient child? The exploration of love and exactly when love turns harmful? How selfishness and compassion share a bed? I can't pick one, and I can't use mere words to say how perfect this book is; not because it is about a perfect subject, has a perfect ending, or perfectly tells its story, but because it is simply perfect all-together.
To date, I've not read a better book. As my introduction to Greenwood, this book made me feel all the ugly and wonderful and terrible and beautiful and complicated things. Each time I describe this book to someone I do it in a different way. Do I focus on the story of a resilient child? The exploration of love and exactly when love turns harmful? How selfishness and compassion share a bed? I can't pick one, and I can't use mere words to say how perfect this book is; not because it is about a perfect subject, has a perfect ending, or perfectly tells its story, but because it is simply perfect all-together.