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lheibs 's review for:
What I'd Rather Not Think About
by Jente Posthuma
I knew this was going to be heavy, and the depth and manner that suicide is talked about here means I would be so hesitant to recommend this to anyone that would find that a sensitive topic. But the relationship between the siblings and her thoughts and processing of their childhood and trying to understand him when he was alive and after was all very well-done and sad but I enjoyed the humanness and reflection of their relationship.
I only learned after finishing it that this was fiction and not a memoir, and honestly that does change my rating from a 4 to a 3. Some of things that happened especially the focus on Nazis and Mengele's twin experiments were strange but when you're young you can get hyper focused on things and retain that info and interest, but learning that that was purely a creative choice to include is very weird to me. Less problematic but the other repeating tropes throughout previously felt like a genuine look into the things that made up their relationship (sweaters, Survivor, Twin Towers/height, 1 2 3 4, Ween) but now just seem strange and overdone.
I only learned after finishing it that this was fiction and not a memoir, and honestly that does change my rating from a 4 to a 3. Some of things that happened especially the focus on Nazis and Mengele's twin experiments were strange but when you're young you can get hyper focused on things and retain that info and interest, but learning that that was purely a creative choice to include is very weird to me. Less problematic but the other repeating tropes throughout previously felt like a genuine look into the things that made up their relationship (sweaters, Survivor, Twin Towers/height, 1 2 3 4, Ween) but now just seem strange and overdone.