A review by glitterdeww
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Everyone in This Room Will Someday be Dead could very well become one of my top recommended books. This story talks (shocker) about death and our individual relationships with death. But like any extreme... We cannot fully appreciate the magnitude of something like death without concurrently appreciating it's opposite... Life. And THIS, this is what I think this book does so well. In ruminating, almost obsessively, on death and dying, we are pushed into thinking about life, meaning, love and community. 

It's hard to describe just how closely and acutely this book follows the thoughts of a severely depressed person. From Gilda's perception, we see the world through an expansive range of emotions. It is as if the entire spectrum of human feeling is laid out for us through her scattered internal monologue. It is both comforting and extremely uncomfortable, showing the rich dichotomy of what it means to be alive. 


"I can't believe that I'm alive.
I can't believe that I can believe anything." 😭❤️
 
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