A review by joemanz13
The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

4.0

“But you need to understand, and not be scared, because a child doesn’t die like you, an adult or an old person reading these lines. Children die without having had a chance to picture the end, without a sense of it being born and maturing within them. They die the same way they get lice or a skinned knee. They die, without understanding, with their childish naïveté imagining death the way they imagine April showers, meteorological inevitabilities that eventually pass, not knowing or realizing that this inevitability does not pass.”

A swift, brutal, and bleak read that genuinely made my jaw drop countless times.