A review by dpepin
Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell

3.0

This was quite a tender reminiscence of misspent youth yet I felt that it lacked substance really. I enjoy a retrospective novel but they can stray into repetitiveness as I fear this one did, the characters failed to resonate and there was nothing particularly gripping or riotous as many reviews had led me to believe. However, I didn’t think it was necessarily bad rather just poorly advertised. I would describe it, instead, as an insight to a niche area of familial relationships and queer upbringings in stereotypically homophobic settings. A meander of a novel rather than the rapid that I thought it would be, disappointing but it still had its moments.