📘 "You Must Not Miss" by Katrina Leno
I'm unsure of what to think of this one. I'll have to see how it stays and warps in my mind over the next few weeks or months.
You Must Not Miss is a young adult novel, but quite a dark one. Its magical realism is very intriguing. The way it's written is so very uncanny and I loved that. The word choice for descriptions is always odd and unexpected in a great way.
For this book you'll have to be able to manage expectations. The characters won't be likeable, things will never go as you hope they'll to go, and destruction will take precedence over healing. That's what's interesting about it, but also frustrating. I didn't like some of the turns the story took. It just didn't totally go there in the way it could have. Maybe that would have been too much for a book for younger readers?
There are so many tales of hope and improvement and I can sort of appreciate how this story with its main character kicks that concept in its stomach when it's down on the ground and begging for its escape. It's a full-on "no", a rejection of the world, in an uncommon way. I'm a sucker for that, but this book didn't quite do it well enough for me to be fully on board.
Overall a strange story about meeting the monsters around you and inside you, made for when you feel like a stranger in your own life. Maybe check CWs before reading because there's certainly difficult stuff in there and it made me feel quite sorrowful at times.
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