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rachel_loves_to_read 's review for:
The Death of Us
by Abigail Dean
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The blurb:
It’s the story everyone wants to hear.
That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart.
The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door.
The night Edward learned that he was powerless to stop them.
The night they never talk about.
When their attacker is caught, it's finally time to tell the story of that night.
Not to the world. Or to the man who did it. But to each other.
My thoughts:
This is possibly my worst nightmare….
The book is written in the past and the present. It goes between Isabel and Edward meeting in the past to their current situation in the present, whilst slowly unraveling the events that took place when a stranger invaded their home.
It was raw. You could feel Isabel’s state of mind when she is telling her story, and how she talks to ‘you’ throughout the book.
The book has several topics that might be hard to read: sexual assault, violence, murder. I felt that they were written well, and although not nice to read about, the book was intriguing.
Thank you to Harper Fiction/ Harper Collins for the advance copy.
It’s the story everyone wants to hear.
That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward’s lives were torn apart.
The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door.
The night Edward learned that he was powerless to stop them.
The night they never talk about.
When their attacker is caught, it's finally time to tell the story of that night.
Not to the world. Or to the man who did it. But to each other.
My thoughts:
This is possibly my worst nightmare….
The book is written in the past and the present. It goes between Isabel and Edward meeting in the past to their current situation in the present, whilst slowly unraveling the events that took place when a stranger invaded their home.
It was raw. You could feel Isabel’s state of mind when she is telling her story, and how she talks to ‘you’ throughout the book.
The book has several topics that might be hard to read: sexual assault, violence, murder. I felt that they were written well, and although not nice to read about, the book was intriguing.
Thank you to Harper Fiction/ Harper Collins for the advance copy.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Murder