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A review by michael_benavidez
Deification by Brooklynn Dean
5.0
One of my absolute favorite things about this book was the prose. It's not often I find an author willing to play with their prose, and do so with such grace. Beautifully written it's contrasted by the content to make for some of the best and most jarring descriptions.
Reading this I imagined a post apocalyptic wasteland, a mad max world of disasters all clashing into our real world, while the fantastical elements elevated the story into something unique.
There's a lot in here that twists and turns so seamlessly that I genuinely finished it in one day. I found myself putting it down to do my own shit only to stop and pick it up again because I needed to know where it was going.
We take the POV of Torrence, you're not so average main character, and quickly realize that for the better part of the story we're stuck with the villains. Do we root for them? Do we sympathize? I don't know, and I don't know if I did, but by the end her and bad boys were fully realized characters.
I don't want to take away from the story because it's an absolute ride of what the fuck, greatly paced with brief brief flashbacks that are just as enlightening, with unique and interesting story concepts. But the prose, the turn of phrases, the inner dialogue, the road that unfolds through these words is the main highlight for me. I am in love with the writing style, making the most disgusting moments flash with a sort of beauty that I haven't seen anyone try to do, not on this level at least. Even now a full night's rest later, I reel from what the words provoked.
Reading this I imagined a post apocalyptic wasteland, a mad max world of disasters all clashing into our real world, while the fantastical elements elevated the story into something unique.
There's a lot in here that twists and turns so seamlessly that I genuinely finished it in one day. I found myself putting it down to do my own shit only to stop and pick it up again because I needed to know where it was going.
We take the POV of Torrence, you're not so average main character, and quickly realize that for the better part of the story we're stuck with the villains. Do we root for them? Do we sympathize? I don't know, and I don't know if I did, but by the end her and bad boys were fully realized characters.
I don't want to take away from the story because it's an absolute ride of what the fuck, greatly paced with brief brief flashbacks that are just as enlightening, with unique and interesting story concepts. But the prose, the turn of phrases, the inner dialogue, the road that unfolds through these words is the main highlight for me. I am in love with the writing style, making the most disgusting moments flash with a sort of beauty that I haven't seen anyone try to do, not on this level at least. Even now a full night's rest later, I reel from what the words provoked.