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A review by stephautry
Black Iris by Elliot Wake, Elliot Wake
5.0
I read this book almost a month ago and I still can’t get over how amazing it was. There’s a reason people talk this book up all over social media. It sticks with you long after you finish it.
Black Iris is about a girl named Laney who enlists the help of two friends to seek revenge on the bullies who tortured her in high school. Anyone who has ever been bullied dreams of finding a book like this. Laney’s not out for forgiveness and understanding. She wants blood and revenge. She’s a raw, unapologetic character who knows what she wants and how to get it. There are twists you never see coming. Blythe and Laney may go down as one of my favorite fictional couples. Their connection was fire.
This is the first book I’ve read by Leah Raeder and I was immediately blown away by every word on the page. Her prose is lyrical and poetic. The first sentence draws you in and holds you for the rest of the story. “April is the cruelest month, T.S. Elliot said, and that’s because it kills.” In every workshop or writing class out there, the instructor tells you that if your first sentence doesn’t immediately captivate the reader, you can’t expect them to hang on for two hundred pages. Leah Raeder’s first sentence is a hell of an example of that.
This is an amazing revenge story with captivating characters and a narrator who keeps you guessing with every page.
Black Iris is about a girl named Laney who enlists the help of two friends to seek revenge on the bullies who tortured her in high school. Anyone who has ever been bullied dreams of finding a book like this. Laney’s not out for forgiveness and understanding. She wants blood and revenge. She’s a raw, unapologetic character who knows what she wants and how to get it. There are twists you never see coming. Blythe and Laney may go down as one of my favorite fictional couples. Their connection was fire.
This is the first book I’ve read by Leah Raeder and I was immediately blown away by every word on the page. Her prose is lyrical and poetic. The first sentence draws you in and holds you for the rest of the story. “April is the cruelest month, T.S. Elliot said, and that’s because it kills.” In every workshop or writing class out there, the instructor tells you that if your first sentence doesn’t immediately captivate the reader, you can’t expect them to hang on for two hundred pages. Leah Raeder’s first sentence is a hell of an example of that.
This is an amazing revenge story with captivating characters and a narrator who keeps you guessing with every page.