A review by declaired
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

5.0

Feb 19
I think this is one of my all-time favorite books, and may I never stop having emotions about it.
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September 18
I think this might be my favorite read of 2018. Three times through and I still have to pause to cry over Elliot's emotional revelations. "He did not want to be loved enough. He wanted to be loved overwhelmingly...He had never been chosen, so he has never had a chance to know this about himself before now: he wanted to be chosen first."
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June 18
I did not MEAN to reread this book in one day a mere one month after I had read it for the first time but I was just thinking about how funny it was and how I should try some other SRB and whoops I checked it out and accidentally the whole thing. CONSIDER THAT IF YOU LIKE GOOD THINGS YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK.
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May 18
This is one of those books that I was trying to listen to as an audiobook but liked the plot so much and was so impatient that I had to get the physical version so I could read it faster. And then I did and I cried a whole bunch because it's an incredible book and it's so funny and it just makes the moments when it is sincere about difficult things hit even more because it has you, heart and soul.

to crib my tumblr review:
it’s a delightful riff on a traditional “kid from our world walks into fantasyland,” there are matriarchal elves who both echo (hilariously) and are used to interrogate shitty gender politics, it’s super queer, it is, to show my fandom age, a lot like reading “what if Rodney McKay at age 11 went through a magic portal,” and is clever AND funny AND good at storytelling AND ripping my heart out through my throat

I love it I love it So Much and if the above list includes things you enjoy then I would suggest checking it out ASAP.

I should probably backread SRB, I have immensely enjoyed everything I've ever read by her.