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These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
5.0
All they were – all they ever had been – was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.
The toxic, gay, Jewish, dark academia-adjacent thriller of my dreams. I can't believe this took me so long to get around to, because this is one of the most beautiful and well-written and fucked up books I've ever read.
There's almost too much to say about this book that there's barely anything to say at all. Every single choice and word in this book is deliberately and brilliantly chosen to encapsulate its layered themes, complicated dynamics, unsettling tone, and unreliable characters. My fingers are twitching over my keyboard, aching to ooze out words of particular praises and meditated observations, but at the same time... I can't think of anything to say. It's not sufficient to say that I'm impressed and obsessed. And yet, that's all I have.
CW: violence, toxic relationship, death, blood & gore, murder, drowning, drugging, animal death, injury detail, suicide (past), death of father (past), abusive parents, self-harm, fire
The toxic, gay, Jewish, dark academia-adjacent thriller of my dreams. I can't believe this took me so long to get around to, because this is one of the most beautiful and well-written and fucked up books I've ever read.
There's almost too much to say about this book that there's barely anything to say at all. Every single choice and word in this book is deliberately and brilliantly chosen to encapsulate its layered themes, complicated dynamics, unsettling tone, and unreliable characters. My fingers are twitching over my keyboard, aching to ooze out words of particular praises and meditated observations, but at the same time... I can't think of anything to say. It's not sufficient to say that I'm impressed and obsessed. And yet, that's all I have.
CW: violence, toxic relationship, death, blood & gore, murder, drowning, drugging, animal death, injury detail, suicide (past), death of father (past), abusive parents, self-harm, fire