A review by halfass_reviewer
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is one of the books that in 10 or 15 years someone is going to pick up and say "this isn't how plagues are, this isn't how people react to them" and for those of us who acknowledged, lived, screamed, cried for all we've lost, begged for those lost to come back to us will look at them. We will say to the doubtful, "we wish this was a work of fiction". Anyway, this was a magnificently sad book. I love that the characters appeared in each other lives. It's definitely a book you have to pay attention to when reading, because Easter eggs are going to pop up and those make the novel so much better. I loved it, and will defiantly be returning back to it.