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A review by thesawyerbean
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
They wanted each other in the way of flesh wanting to knit itself together over a wound.
This was an absolutely phenomenal read. The prose was some of the most stunning and insidiously beautiful I have read, both suffocating you and endearing you to read on. The dark obsessive romance between the two college students, Paul and Julian, was intoxicating and dizzying from the beginning — blossoming and then rotting, gorgeously. This debut from Nemerever was unsettling, tense and compulsively readable: an utter delight.
Paul’s eyes landed on the mirror—its ruthless portrait of two suicides tethered together at the throat.
This was an absolutely phenomenal read. The prose was some of the most stunning and insidiously beautiful I have read, both suffocating you and endearing you to read on. The dark obsessive romance between the two college students, Paul and Julian, was intoxicating and dizzying from the beginning — blossoming and then rotting, gorgeously. This debut from Nemerever was unsettling, tense and compulsively readable: an utter delight.
Paul’s eyes landed on the mirror—its ruthless portrait of two suicides tethered together at the throat.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder