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A review by bumblemee
A Neon Darkness by Lauren Shippen
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
A Neon Darkness was a must-read for me because Damien was a character I could not make up my mind about while listening to The Bright Sessions. ... To be honest, I don't think the book helped that much on that front, but it was great.
I got through this book SO quickly; while being rather slow, it was still a pageturner (to me). It does an amazing job of making you feel more conflicted about Damien than you ever did before. I was stuck between feeling for him and wanting to yell at him constantly. He is one of those characters where you understand where he is coming from while knowing that it doesn't excuse his current actions and you get more and more frustrated watching him fuck up constantly.
I don't know if I reccomend reading this if you don't like him at all in The Bright Sessions. It may give you perspective, it may make you hate him more. I was not surprised by anything that happened in this book, but I still (clearly) enjoyed reading it a lot. I was emotionally invested af, maybe because this book confronted me with tiny dark fractions of myself that I don't like that much. Reading this made me think a lot.
Since I'm writing this review more that a year after finishing the book I am not able to provide in detail content warnings, but as always a lot of others did that well.
I got through this book SO quickly; while being rather slow, it was still a pageturner (to me). It does an amazing job of making you feel more conflicted about Damien than you ever did before. I was stuck between feeling for him and wanting to yell at him constantly. He is one of those characters where you understand where he is coming from while knowing that it doesn't excuse his current actions and you get more and more frustrated watching him fuck up constantly.
I don't know if I reccomend reading this if you don't like him at all in The Bright Sessions. It may give you perspective, it may make you hate him more. I was not surprised by anything that happened in this book, but I still (clearly) enjoyed reading it a lot. I was emotionally invested af, maybe because this book confronted me with tiny dark fractions of myself that I don't like that much. Reading this made me think a lot.
Since I'm writing this review more that a year after finishing the book I am not able to provide in detail content warnings, but as always a lot of others did that well.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse