How To Make Friends With The Dark (book review)


Dear Reader,
Sorry I've been gone and thank you for my lovely emails. I really only didn't write because I hadn't read anything and I really wanna save the good shit for you guys. However, It's 2am on a Sunday and I just finished How to make friends with the dark by Kathleen Glasgow and holy shirt balls am I ready to write.

This book is fudging sad. It's about a girl who loses her mum unexpectedly and has to deal with all the other real-life crap that comes with that.

This book is fudging down to earth. It's real, It's raw. It's fudging brilliant.

I think I read this book the exact way the author wanted me too. At least it felt like that. Evey phrased word shock me. Every sentence was crafted like silk from heaven. It was beautiful. Reading this book was like going on a boat in the river blind. The writing is like a current and you just let it carry you from page to page. It was like poetry. It was like sailing on a cloud in a climate change inflicted world. Rain, Sun, Lightning, Gray, Tornado but still smooth all the way through. It was truly something else. Woah.

It was simple things like when our amazing main character, Tiger was feeling overwhelmed and sad the writing switched from I to You because it was too much. It was the way the chapters ended. It was the sentence structure. Oh my god, just everything about how that book was written was beyond perfect.

I didn't cry. But I was very very close to. I think it might have been because I have never lost someone as close to me as Tiger and her mum so a little bit of me might have felt like I didn't have the right to. For 13 years I have avoided the big suck and after reading this book, I know how lucky I am for that and I know that I really need to never take anything for granted.

This book is art.

It's 2am so this review probably isn't the best it could be but I'm not going to add to it because these emotions are the exact ones I'm feeling after reading the book so there the most authentic ones you will get of me.

I loved this book. Please read it, especially if you have ever lost someone.

5/5 stars.

Love
x

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