theperksofthewild 's review for:

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I feel like a speck of dust and simultaneously the importance of every little soul on this planet.

(this is a slightly altered        recitation)

I did not at all expect this book to make me cry so much.

I deeply and thoroughly feel for this protagonist. Gilda, with all her helpless nihilism, her deep depression, the furrowing detachment as a blinded act of escapism.

The book is structured like a long, spiraling string of thought. You are so immensely close to the closed-off MC.

She has my heart, she made me cry, I want to read this over and over and over again.

Oh, Gilda — I know the sea feels endlessly deep and drowning deems inescapable, but for a while you can swim, and others will join, and sometimes float on, and sometimes stay.

Welp, we are indeed just tiny little specks of dust on this tiny little planet — but all with roaring, beating hearts and eyes that sense wonder and voices echoing love.