A review by storytimed
All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry

3.0

Beautiful prose, ultimately unsatisfying. The casual diversity of book 3 (which I loved so much more) felt forced and performative here, and the dreamlike stream of consciousness prose turned into a frustrating refusal for anyone to explain anything ever. Also has a noxious message of "learning to let people go" aka never holding them accountable for their actions or having a conversation or attempting to maintain a relationship with someone even if your lives go down separate paths! McCarry fixed the problems of book 1 later in the series, but reading it still makes me want to skip book 2.