A review by auroraboringallofus
Ill Will by Dan Chaon

3.0

Nearly a month after reading this, I have to come back to say: 1. It sticks with you, both the good and the bad; and 2. I wish I hadn't read it. There's some great insight and clever writing. I loved one character's observation that "dying is another thing you have to live through," -- that even as she dies of cancer, she is alive and living through this experience -- until I saw how this truth was used against other characters (especially at the end). I don't know if the sentiment was meant to be meditative or just more horror-fodder, and I don't know if it matters.