A review by moonyreadsbystarlight
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This story was incredibly moving, incredibly effective, and incredibly important. It's a memoir told primarily in second person through a series of short chapters showing scenes, descriptions, metaphors, and commentary. She brings you through falling in love, the first experiences of anger, emotional whiplash, to fear, and then how it lingers. 

This book is beautiful and brilliant on all levels. The writing is brilliant in a literary sense. The reader experiences the relationship intimately, but only through windows - the closest one can be to experiencing another person's story, no mater how "complete" it feels. It brings to light abuse in queer relationships - a topic that desperately needs attention and nuance in so many ways

 This is the best book that I have read so far in 2020.
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