A review by catbewks
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
3.0
3.5 stars
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley is a book unlike any other I've ever read.
The unlikeliness of the story both threw me off and drew me in at the same time.
The book's portrayal of Death and its metaphorical meaning were my favourite parts. I also really loved how emotional this book was able to make me.
(I do think there's something missing, though, something that would have made this book truly special.)
I really enjoyed it regardless; Shaun David Hutchinson is becoming one of my favourite authors. He's so stupidly underrated.
When boys wake up screaming in the night, it's because they know that, one day, they'll have to grow into men who wear suits and spend their days doing boring things that cause them to rot from within, so their skin withers and blackens and cracks, leaking out their juices until they finally lie decaying and putrid, forgotten by a world that deemed them unworthy of remembering.
It begins there because it's important to know that a superhero with no past began as a man with no future.
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley is a book unlike any other I've ever read.
The unlikeliness of the story both threw me off and drew me in at the same time.
The book's portrayal of Death and its metaphorical meaning were my favourite parts. I also really loved how emotional this book was able to make me.
(I do think there's something missing, though, something that would have made this book truly special.)
I really enjoyed it regardless; Shaun David Hutchinson is becoming one of my favourite authors. He's so stupidly underrated.
When boys wake up screaming in the night, it's because they know that, one day, they'll have to grow into men who wear suits and spend their days doing boring things that cause them to rot from within, so their skin withers and blackens and cracks, leaking out their juices until they finally lie decaying and putrid, forgotten by a world that deemed them unworthy of remembering.
It begins there because it's important to know that a superhero with no past began as a man with no future.