A review by windsrising
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour

tense

3.25

“I allowed myself to close to my eyes. Soon, I drifted to sleep. No nightmares. No visions of men come to haunt me, or scared little boys rocking forward and back. No sickness over the things I had or had not done. Only assurances that I was good, that I did what I should have… and then I woke up alone. The bed was cold. I reached for the blankets and they gave too easily, no bodies tangled up in them. I sat and saw the emptiness.”

that was mostly boring (LucieReads on youtube called it “quiet” which is a nicer description) but then kind of crazy. the ear piercing scene was a lot. a confrontation with parental trauma that snuck up on me. i didn’t feel like the characters except for mila were very fleshed out which made the story feel very singular/narrow/idk?

i think i’ve come to the conclusion that audiobooks aren’t a good fit for lacour’s works because they are so cerebral and internal, i would have much rather read this without the inflections from the narrator