The trauma felt painfully real, but it was the aftermath that got me. The guilt. The shame. The confusion. Trying to figure out how to keep living when nothing feels the same anymore.
I was invested almost immediately. Every conversation felt loaded. Every setback hurt. Their relationships were messy and complicated in a way that felt so human.
This book doesn’t romanticise what happened. It lets the characters carry it, and it makes you carry it with them.
I closed the book feeling emotionally drained… and I mean that as the highest compliment.