A review by hccranston
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

5.0

I’m giving this book five stars because it’s exceptionally well-written, but this book was HARD for me to get through because of the subject matter. Confronting our ugly history is a necessary endeavor, and it was heartbreaking to read this knowing that the characters might be fictional but the events were not. This is a horror novel and Due really emphasizes that the horror of ghosts haunting the reformatory pale in comparison to the conditions endured by the living boys.