A review by bookishvicky
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

“We’ve only ever known each other.”

So what the hell am I supposed to write for a review? Can I add a picture of me crying, of me finishing this in a day and feeling like I’m a little speck in a universe where this god damn thing exists?

You watch Wall-E? Yeah take that and multiply it by a thousand sadness and make it gay (I mean. Did the robots have gender? Was it already gay? I digress). 

“You might be loving each other deeper than any humans have ever loved, have ever needed to love, have ever had the occasion to love.”

A gorgeous, gorgeous story of the will of love and humanity, the wood of a violin that still makes music thousands of years after the last trees have died. I tend to avoid sci-fi for this very reason, it makes me feel things and it makes me sad. 

This novel was so raw. I haven’t felt this nauseous and struck since “Hell Followed With Us”. Good book. What the fuck though. 
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