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A review by janeleng
Sadie by Courtney Summers
5.0
About 30 pages in, I knew that I was going to finish this book in one sitting. The whole time I was reading, I had to keep reminding myself to breathe.
This is not a simple YA thriller. This is a book about profound grief and hurt, in all of their contradicting forms. The protagonist, Sadie, breathes with a depth that I've rarely seen in fiction. She is so vulnerable and so pained as she tells the story of tracking her sister's killer but from that vulnerability and from that pain comes an unimaginable well of power.
Sadie is both a eulogy and a love note to women's pain, so often given to us unnecessarily but that can be transformed into something powerful and undeniable and with which we alter the world.
This is not a simple YA thriller. This is a book about profound grief and hurt, in all of their contradicting forms. The protagonist, Sadie, breathes with a depth that I've rarely seen in fiction. She is so vulnerable and so pained as she tells the story of tracking her sister's killer but from that vulnerability and from that pain comes an unimaginable well of power.
Sadie is both a eulogy and a love note to women's pain, so often given to us unnecessarily but that can be transformed into something powerful and undeniable and with which we alter the world.