A review by flyerkelly14
The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I liked the epilogue more than anything else in the book. The book dragged at times and definitely could’ve been shortened. I find the switching POVs within paragraphs to be confusing. We hop from perspectives similar to the writing style in the first book, but I found it harder to follow this book. I would’ve preferred for the split POVs to be clearly bound/divided in chapters, or for there to only be one or two POV so we weren’t so omnipresent. I also feel this prequel was a little not necessary for world building because we already know a lot of stuff from the first book, and this book didn’t add much until the last chapter (and the epilogue). 
This book gives an interesting topic to think about, but I don’t think it was very well executed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Violence, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy