A review by mjwhitlock18
Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

challenging funny reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

I don’t even know what to say about this book. This book is chaotic and realistic, funny and depressingly bleak. It is written as stream of consciousness, following an anxious, catastrophising, directionless, atheist lesbian with intrusive thoughts and existential dread, who searches for therapy and instead accidentally ends up with a job in a Catholic church. Gilda is a multifaceted, complex character, but so many of the other characters are flat and one-dimensional. But I guess given that the story is from her POV and she spends most of the book wrapped up with her thoughts, maybe she simply lacks the awareness to see them as complex. Austin’s portrayal of Gilda’s inner thoughts are very real and relatable for someone with depression/anxiety, but also may be triggering to read for some, just FYI. 
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