A review by ida_the_vision
Unteachable by Elliot Wake

5.0

"I feel like I'm waking from a long dream, and everything is so much more beautiful than I remembered."

That's how I felt while reading Unteachable: like the world became beautiful again, every scene opening my eyes a little more. Leah Raider uses words as her paintbrush and creates stunning images. And not just rosy images of love, but a number of complex feelings. It is beautiful without reaching. I never found the prose to be over-the-top (though it definitely was very intense at times). It is sharp, descriptive, sensory, the kind of novel that pulls me out of my body and into the story.

The blurb will tell you that the book is about a teacher/student relationship, and while that is true, that's not the heart of the novel. This is a story about learning how to be human. About how we see the world and how we see ourselves.

I could go on forever, quoting this book and praising it, but I'm gonna stay brief this time:

I loved this book.