Maria McCann

I was going to give this a long review but like... I just can't care anymore.

Good if you're looking for a very well written, beautifully constructed, minutely researched bury your gays. Yeah, I'm miffed. Fuck this book. It had everything going for it to be my favorite book of the year, and having a completely unnecessary and shoddy relationship split after spending 500 pages with a couple is............ disappointing.

Gay lit deserves better. Still a fucking amazing book, but we deserve better.… (meer)

Excellent character study of a morally disturbed man. Being in Jacob’s mind was a fascinating experience, if not exactly a pleasant one (because of his religious guilt). He was a very peculiar MC, ‘savage’ in both anger and love, impulsive and prone to obsession. I’m still not sure if he suffered from a mental disorder or if his ‘Voice’ was just the manifestation of his fear and shame… Definitely not a ‘good’ man, however you look at it, but his story still broke my heart.

The writing here was just stunning, very descriptive, and even if it was a little overlong in places after the 50% mark (mostly the colony-related bits), I skipped nothing. I give credit where credit’s due, and this debut deserves the highest rating.… (meer)