“I think you’ll find your real ending once you stop looking for it.” 

I’m going to be honest: it took me a minute to get into this. But once I did, I was into it. 

Martyr! Follows Cyrus as he tries to find the point of living and a reason to live, after becoming sober. Cyrus’s mother was in a plane that was shot down when he was just a baby and his father left shortly after Cyrus went to college. Poetry, different POVs, and past memories are mixed in throughout the book, providing a good background for how Cyrus got to where he is.

Cyrus’s feelings of loss, grief, and aimlessness will be relatable to many people. The way the author portrays grief in this book is so unique, yet so accurate. We see grief in Cyrus and other characters in different ways throughout the book, and it’s amazing to me how the author could do that. 

This is a book you should really know very little about going into. Know that it is a little weird, there is a lot of talk about death and martyrdom, and it is so gripping once you get into it. It seems like there is no plot at first, but it reveals itself in a beautifully-written way.