A review by crystal_staley
The Light of the Fireflies by Paul Pen

2.0

This started out great. I was so intrigued about why this family was living in a basement and no one was allowed to leave. <Then it fell to the trope of the ‘disabled person being a villain’ and I was so disappointed. One of the sons in the story had an accident and has a brain injury which now makes him want to rape and murder a girl. Because of course it does. Ugh—  I finished the book because the writing is good and I wanted to see how it ended with the other son who is the main narrator. But it was hard for me to get past the fact that the disabled person is just so uncontrollable and a ‘bad guy’.  Just my two cents of course. >