A review by fabi_g
The Law of Inertia by Sophie Gonzales

5.0

This book! This story! The best I've read this year. The writing is so beautiful it reminds me of the first time I read [b:Wolfsong|29233804|Wolfsong (Green Creek, #1)|T.J. Klune|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1463862865s/29233804.jpg|49474397]. It's lyrical, poetic and full of emotion.

See, the thing is that happiness is a whore. I’ve never met a more disloyal emotion in my life. Nothing like misery, which proposes to you on the first date. Yet, like a mistress I swear off every time, all happiness has to do is peek its head around the corner, contrite and apologetic, and I give myself over to it completely. It’s transient and fleeting, and I know it won’t still be in my bed the next morning, but while I have it, it’s everything.

The plot is a character driven mystery with LGBTQ YA romance.

If anyone could listen to my silence and hear the words I wanted to speak, it was him

It deals with some very heavy topics like depression and anxiety, suicide, sexual identity, self-harm, drug abuse and off-page child abuse. Most of the characters are teenagers, including the MCs. All of them are so well developed that I became emotionally invested very early on in the story.

The first two times I tried to die, I survived.
But I’ll tell you something only two people know.
When I did die, I wasn’t trying to at all.

***A huge thank you to Ms. S. Gonzales for writing this book.***


Review ARC graciously provided by the publisher via NetGalley