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A review by sachik
The World Cannot Give by Tara Isabella Burton
5.0
GOD. 5 stars. this has everything. those sapphic friendships where you’re too obsessed with each other, where everything she says seems right and holy. the boarding school dark academia setting and how so much of this is a cautionary tale about romanticizing institutions like that instead of making them change.
Laura as a protag, who I know some people don’t like but I completely understand because I was also a romanticizing, naive, virginal teenager at sixteen. the way the friendships feel so fragile but also larger than life. the ending, god, the murder-suicide – it feels inevitable but it hits so hard.
and i love the way Laura goes from desperately wanting to believe in something more & bigger, to growing up and realizing life isn’t a story but that doesn’t make it any less meaningful … I could weep over this book
Laura as a protag, who I know some people don’t like but I completely understand because I was also a romanticizing, naive, virginal teenager at sixteen. the way the friendships feel so fragile but also larger than life. the ending, god, the murder-suicide – it feels inevitable but it hits so hard.
and i love the way Laura goes from desperately wanting to believe in something more & bigger, to growing up and realizing life isn’t a story but that doesn’t make it any less meaningful … I could weep over this book