I don’t even know where to begin. I can’t tell you how much I loved this book. How much it lived in my bones for the entire five days I read it, or how much I longed to get back to it the moment I had to wrest myself away to go do something else.

This was a transportive piece of art, the kind of book that breaks all the rules of craft in the most intriguing and satisfying ways. It’s exactly the kind of book I hope to write, and the feeling I walked away from it with is exactly the feeling I hope to evoke in my readers someday.

Mood and tone are the major standout elements here. There’s so much going on in this story that you start to wonder if you’re actually reading and interpreting it correctly, but it propels you forward regardless.

I also loved that this book had a fantastic denouement—an element of storytelling that seems almost nonexistent in today’s hottest selling fiction, but an element that I appreciated so much at the end of this stunning tale.

I loved that everything wasn’t tied up with a little bow in the end, not really. But the characters had to figure out a new equilibrium, a new way of existence after living through this story. And that’s what drama and storytelling are supposed to be all about: a great change and the way the players carry on in light of it.

Solid, superb work here. I can’t wait for more in the adult genre from this author!