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tessm567 's review for:
Private Rites
by Julia Armfield
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Um, what the fuck. Julia Armfield what are you doing to me?! What was that ending oh my god. I think I loved the book and hated the ending.
So both moms were in a suicide cult and Agnes was supposed to be offered up to them for some reason?
You know what it really is a horror book.
At the end I thought they might be trying to cut gills into people but I don't think that was it.
And now of all things I have to read King Lear?!?
Agnes being watched and being afraid of eyes on her and then turning out to be CORRECT is so creepy.
I wish I saved one of the quotes about how siblings only know a version of each other frozen at a particular point in time.
You know what it really is a horror book.
And now of all things I have to read King Lear?!?
I wish I saved one of the quotes about how siblings only know a version of each other frozen at a particular point in time.
Exhausting, to be so busy and so bored with no time left for either.
The truth is not that Jude is calm to the exclusion of all problems but rather calm in the face of them, calm as a method of attack.
Irene shakes her head; thinks, for an instant, of the first time she told Jude she loved them, the moment that marked the end of waiting, of hanging around wondering what the big event of her life might be.
An unspoken thought between them: the essential fact of Irene as a creature akin to a hermit crab, whose outer shell seems ostensibly tough but is only the home to a very soft animal, and the secondary fact of Jude as the only person who really knows this.
... everything related to the organization of a funeral seems precision-tooled to make a person feel studded with tiny little pieces of glass.
Death, after all, puts an end to the argument, but it also prolongs the silence for good.