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A review by kierscrivener
She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
emotional
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
"I don't like my body without you and I want to"
This was gorgeous in writing, execution and characters and weaving Hindu mythology into a coming of age of a queer Canadian boy.
Our unnamed protagionist comes of age, discovering what being gay means, and despite fitting every stereotype and what every one kerps telling him what being queer means, what being busexual means.
It is written lyrically, Shraya is a musician and it shows in her writing and the ending and beginning mirror each other. It is one I feel like I could reread again and again and gather more from it.
I am already aching for a reread minutes after concluding it.
I love stories that covers a relationship not as a fixation or a romance but as a natural part of one's life something that winds in and winds out. And how intimate relationships change and develop our stories, when they come, when they leave and when we heal.
I wholly recommend it.
This was gorgeous in writing, execution and characters and weaving Hindu mythology into a coming of age of a queer Canadian boy.
Our unnamed protagionist comes of age, discovering what being gay means, and despite fitting every stereotype and what every one kerps telling him what being queer means, what being busexual means.
It is written lyrically, Shraya is a musician and it shows in her writing and the ending and beginning mirror each other. It is one I feel like I could reread again and again and gather more from it.
I am already aching for a reread minutes after concluding it.
I love stories that covers a relationship not as a fixation or a romance but as a natural part of one's life something that winds in and winds out. And how intimate relationships change and develop our stories, when they come, when they leave and when we heal.
I wholly recommend it.