Review by carpakkoi - Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

carpakkoi 's review for:

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

5.0

inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’ve been aware of my own mortality ever since I was a young child. I remember being as young as 6 and wondering how every one of my peers could live so happily, so carefree, when we would all die eventually. I remember crying and shaking at night and telling my mommy I had a nightmare when in reality I hadn’t even fallen asleep yet, because my mind was filled with thoughts of nothingness. Rotting in a coffin. Bugs eating my skin. Feeling nothing. Seeing nothing. I was always deadly afraid of my own death.
This is exactly the type of thought process the main character goes through. It was comforting, to an extent, but also too real. Made me feel angry at myself. Some people close to me have told me I spent my life being so consumed with the fear of dying I didn’t even notice I wasn’t living at all.
This book read to me exactly like that sentence.

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