A review by heatherbermingham
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
5.0
If this wasn't the best book I read this year, it's definitely on the short list.
The description I read of this book made it sound like a horror novel and while there are elements of horror, it's so much more than that. This book is such an interesting and powerful mix of fiction and history, supernatural horror and human horror, and our ability to be terrible to each other and also save each other. The brother and sister at the center of the story are really well-detailed and believable. I thought about this book when I wasn't reading it, I stayed up late multiple nights with it, and it's definitely one that will stick with me. Just a really great book.
The description I read of this book made it sound like a horror novel and while there are elements of horror, it's so much more than that. This book is such an interesting and powerful mix of fiction and history, supernatural horror and human horror, and our ability to be terrible to each other and also save each other. The brother and sister at the center of the story are really well-detailed and believable. I thought about this book when I wasn't reading it, I stayed up late multiple nights with it, and it's definitely one that will stick with me. Just a really great book.