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Dark Room Etiquette
by Robin Roe
I will not forget this book for a long time. I guarantee you I will wake up in the morning thinking of these characters because they have not left my head since I finished the book. I loved it so much. It made me feel every emotion under the sun, especially sadness, anger, but at the same time, hope.
“it’s shocking how attached you can become to a plan you only conceived of a day before, but once you feel hope, it can fill every cell of your body until you are hope.”
do not let the length of this book deter you (just over 500 pages) from reading it. I flew through it in 2 days because I could not. put. it. down. short chapters and an amazing story will do that to me.
I think it was 100% an intentional choice by the author to invoke the reader’s anger toward the main character in the first 1/3 of the book. this way, when the opposite emotions were felt at the end of the book, it showed the immense growth and transformation of his character through all the trauma he faced. the author mentions “vulnerable but invincible” in her author’s note (don’t skip it if you read this book!) and that is the perfect description of how these characters carried on.
I do wish that the concept of therapy was more central in the last 1/3 of the book while the main character was in the aftermath. I also wish his friends were more understanding of what happened to him and that a few loose ends were tied up with his mother, father, and former best friend.
I highly recommend this book if you’re looking for something deep, dark, and fast paced. as well as one that will fill you with hope for the characters and their lives moving forward after trauma.
thank you so much robin roe and harper teen for sending me a copy of dark room etiquette in exchange for an honest review.
“it’s shocking how attached you can become to a plan you only conceived of a day before, but once you feel hope, it can fill every cell of your body until you are hope.”
do not let the length of this book deter you (just over 500 pages) from reading it. I flew through it in 2 days because I could not. put. it. down. short chapters and an amazing story will do that to me.
I think it was 100% an intentional choice by the author to invoke the reader’s anger toward the main character in the first 1/3 of the book. this way, when the opposite emotions were felt at the end of the book, it showed the immense growth and transformation of his character through all the trauma he faced. the author mentions “vulnerable but invincible” in her author’s note (don’t skip it if you read this book!) and that is the perfect description of how these characters carried on.
I do wish that the concept of therapy was more central in the last 1/3 of the book while the main character was in the aftermath. I also wish his friends were more understanding of what happened to him and that a few loose ends were tied up with his mother, father, and former best friend.
I highly recommend this book if you’re looking for something deep, dark, and fast paced. as well as one that will fill you with hope for the characters and their lives moving forward after trauma.
thank you so much robin roe and harper teen for sending me a copy of dark room etiquette in exchange for an honest review.