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bookishvicky 's review for:
The Darkness Outside Us
by Eliot Schrefer
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“We’ve only ever known each other.”
So what the hell am I supposed to write for a review? Can I add a picture of me crying, of me finishing this in a day and feeling like I’m a little speck in a universe where this god damn thing exists?
You watch Wall-E? Yeah take that and multiply it by a thousand sadness and make it gay (I mean. Did the robots have gender? Was it already gay? I digress).
“You might be loving each other deeper than any humans have ever loved, have ever needed to love, have ever had the occasion to love.”
A gorgeous, gorgeous story of the will of love and humanity, the wood of a violin that still makes music thousands of years after the last trees have died. I tend to avoid sci-fi for this very reason, it makes me feel things and it makes me sad.
This novel was so raw. I haven’t felt this nauseous and struck since “Hell Followed With Us”. Good book. What the fuck though.
So what the hell am I supposed to write for a review? Can I add a picture of me crying, of me finishing this in a day and feeling like I’m a little speck in a universe where this god damn thing exists?
You watch Wall-E? Yeah take that and multiply it by a thousand sadness and make it gay (I mean. Did the robots have gender? Was it already gay? I digress).
“You might be loving each other deeper than any humans have ever loved, have ever needed to love, have ever had the occasion to love.”
A gorgeous, gorgeous story of the will of love and humanity, the wood of a violin that still makes music thousands of years after the last trees have died. I tend to avoid sci-fi for this very reason, it makes me feel things and it makes me sad.
This novel was so raw. I haven’t felt this nauseous and struck since “Hell Followed With Us”. Good book. What the fuck though.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts