cs1 's review for:

The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld

4.0

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The book is dark, heart-breakingly sad, horror-inducing, and shocking. It is also poignant at places, and insightful. Written from the perspective of a 11-12 yr old girl, it strikes chords on the worlds that children make up inside their heads, some of them true some of them very far from true based on half-knowledge and half-known facts. It is also quite insightful that a lot of emption and feelings and measure of mental capacities that children do catch are far from being off. hence maybe it is imp to understand the mind of a child and help her make sense of things. More than anything, the story bares the extreme mental effect that parents have on children. A powerful story that you will carry in your head somewhere though you don't want to remember it.
If the various reviews did not warn you enough already, this is a mentally-taxing book. I would not advice on reading it if you are not in the balanced and right frame of mind.