A review by briarfairchild
We Used to Be Kings by Stewart Foster
4.0
It's hard to find the words to describe this book. It is at times scary, funny and sad, but mostly terribly, terribly sad. It's about a boy, Tom, whose dead brother talks to him inside his head and whose father has gone to the moon.
It's a clever book and shows the reality of Tom's psychosis so painfully clearly that at one point I wondered how Tom would cope if his brother's voice were to disappear. The whole story of exactly what happened to each person is slowly revealed to show how Tom comes to the point he has reached by the end of the story.
The ending is desperately sad but somehow seems right, and in some ways better than other things that could have happened.
I really recommend this book; it's not a happy read but it is real.
It's a clever book and shows the reality of Tom's psychosis so painfully clearly that at one point I wondered how Tom would cope if his brother's voice were to disappear. The whole story of exactly what happened to each person is slowly revealed to show how Tom comes to the point he has reached by the end of the story.
The ending is desperately sad but somehow seems right, and in some ways better than other things that could have happened.
I really recommend this book; it's not a happy read but it is real.