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A review by queenofswordsandwords
Shatterproof by Xen
5.0
CW : this book deals heavily with suicide (ideation and attempt) and depression.
(as always the author includes extensive content warning at the beginning of the book and I highly recommend you read it.)
❝ That was how it worked, when you really wanted it. You didn’t advertise it. You didn’t broadcast it to anyone who might stop you. You held it close, a precious little secret clutched to your chest, and planned it out so nothing could go wrong. ❞
➸ Human/Fae
➸ One want to die/the other wants to live
❝ You’re water, and I can’t hold on to you no matter how hard I try. ❞
for a book that was about supernatural creatures, it was incredibly human. Grey and Saint start out as strangers, Saints being the paramedic that gets Grey to the hospital after his suicide attempt. The magical writing and the visceral subject matter had me from the beginning. I had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up this book and it's probably my kindle book with the most highlights. This is the kind of book that I will need in paperback to tab the hell out of it. I am now feeling the bookhangover.
❝ He’d never let anyone know him like this before. Not all of him. Everyone he’d ever known only saw the colors of a single patchwork square, and not the pattern they made when stitched together.❞
(as always the author includes extensive content warning at the beginning of the book and I highly recommend you read it.)
❝ That was how it worked, when you really wanted it. You didn’t advertise it. You didn’t broadcast it to anyone who might stop you. You held it close, a precious little secret clutched to your chest, and planned it out so nothing could go wrong. ❞
➸ Human/Fae
➸ One want to die/the other wants to live
❝ You’re water, and I can’t hold on to you no matter how hard I try. ❞
for a book that was about supernatural creatures, it was incredibly human. Grey and Saint start out as strangers, Saints being the paramedic that gets Grey to the hospital after his suicide attempt. The magical writing and the visceral subject matter had me from the beginning. I had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up this book and it's probably my kindle book with the most highlights. This is the kind of book that I will need in paperback to tab the hell out of it. I am now feeling the bookhangover.
❝ He’d never let anyone know him like this before. Not all of him. Everyone he’d ever known only saw the colors of a single patchwork square, and not the pattern they made when stitched together.❞