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This book was an interesting take on DID (Disassociative Identity Disorder) and it's effects when doctors either don't believe you or think you're just making things up. You have Carly, who is present during the day and Kaitlyn, who is only present at night. The entire premise of the book is based on what happens when one of the identities, in this case Carly, disappears altogether. The psychiatrist, Dr. Lansing, believes it to be a good thing, but Kaitlyn disagrees.
The driving force of this book, especially Veronyka's character, reminded so much of the saying from The Last Jedi, "That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate. Saving what we love". Veronyka's whole character is about wanting to save and protect everyone she loves and prevent as much bloodshed as possible, which stands in stark contrast to Val, who wants to destroy everyone and everything who has wronged her.
This book is a major call back to all the slasher films of the 80s and 90s. You have the summer camps (Friday the 13th), remote Texas inbreeds (Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Halloween sibling attacks (Halloween), high school horror fanatic team ups (Scream), and dream stalkers (Nightmare on Elm Street). If you enjoy slashers films, this is definitely the book for you.
Do you ever look at the size of your TBR (to be read) list and just feel completely overwhelmed? I currently have nearly 300 books on my TBR list and it keeps growing. Between receiving new recommendations on the daily, being apart of book groups on Facebook, and following authors on Instagram/tiktok/Twitter, it adds up quickly.
So I was super excited for this book. The mystery surrounding it made it extremely intriguing and I'm going to aim to keep it up in this review.
I'm going to freely admit, while I did love this book it took me awhile (over a month) to finish it. I wasn't even sure if I should write a review of it because it took me so long. But, here I go.
As the year comes to a close, it comes with the dreaded anticipation of coming up with new goals for the new year. Some of those goals may be related to work, one's personal life, work out habits, reading habits, etc. Most people end up abandoning these goals 2 weeks into the new year for one reason or another. I know for me personally they get abandoned because I'll set a huge goal for myself and then not do all the smaller steps to achieve it. So now I'm going to use this post to 1) hold myself accountable and 2) plan out how I'm going to achieve them. With that being said, here are a few of my personal goals for the new year:
I have sort of a love/hate relationship with this book. It has great world-building and did a good job of emphasizing how language changes and evolves over time, even though it does get confusing at times. I was oblivious to some of the plot twists, but some were still pretty predictable (not that that's a bad thing). It played a lot into the idea of people seeing technology/science that they don't understand as magic or sorcery, which indicates there was some sort of devolving or apocalyptic event that happened between Andra being put in cryostasis and her waking up.
I am ashamed that it's taken me this long to start reading The Lord of the Rings, especially since I'm such a huge fan of the films and fantasy on a whole. Let me tell you, it almost certainly lives up to the hype.
So this was my first time reading a book by Brandon Sanderson. I'm always a bit wary when a male author writes a female MC, mainly because I've been burned one too many times. Brandon Sanderson managed to defy this expectation and write some amazing and compelling female characters. Great, now I'm feeling the need to read all of his other books and by god does he have a lot of them (237 according to Goodreads).
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