I cried for much of the last hundred pages, even though I knew how it had to end -- BECAUSE of how it had to end. It is ridiculously powerful in places, excessively florid in others, and gut-wrenching in its unflinching refusal to provide grace, or closure.

I am grateful I read it without spoilers, but I wish I'd known in advance just how dark its themes were. It is the first book I've had to stop reading on the bus because I couldn't read it without emotions leaking through.

Harrowing.
Beautiful.
Unrelenting.