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A review by hollylambe
Into a Star by Puk Qvortrup
5.0
Absolutely devastating, heart-wrenching, gut punch of a book. I am not one to cry at books but I ugly sobbed from about page 5 through to the half way point. Once I was in, I was unable to put it down because I was in so much emotional pain that I knew I didn't have it in me to stop and then pick it up and start again.
I cannot genuinely say I could 'recommend' this to anyone due to how emotionally hollowed out it left me.
But the writing was astonishing, with a gritty honesty and stark simplicity to the language. The situation needed no embellishment. Particularly the first half of the book, was some of the most moving prose I have ever read. The fracturing of present tense trauma into past relationship fragments into futures that were so uncertain and spectral persisted throughout. A truly remarkable story and a phenomenal novel.
I cannot genuinely say I could 'recommend' this to anyone due to how emotionally hollowed out it left me.
But the writing was astonishing, with a gritty honesty and stark simplicity to the language. The situation needed no embellishment. Particularly the first half of the book, was some of the most moving prose I have ever read. The fracturing of present tense trauma into past relationship fragments into futures that were so uncertain and spectral persisted throughout. A truly remarkable story and a phenomenal novel.