Devesh

"For a little while, Charlie understands everything. Including what it means to slowly lose it all. This book left me wondering whether ignorance is always something to escape and how much of who we are survives when the mind that remembers us begins to disappear."

"Alicia doesn’t say a word, and somehow everyone around her has something to say about who she is. That was probably my favourite thing about this book. The silence becomes a blank space and everyone fills it with their own version of the truth."

"This book made me realise how many things I’ve felt without ever knowing what to call them. Maybe we don’t lack words because these feelings are rare. Maybe some feelings are just too strange and too human for language to have caught up with them yet."

"I went into this book expecting a classic vampire story and somehow ended up thinking about loneliness. Almost everyone in this book is searching for someone who makes being alive a little less unbearable. It’s disturbing, yet so softly tender and deeply uncomfortable to read at the same time. You know what I think? Sometimes the person who saves you from loneliness isn’t necessarily someone who should be let in."