Thank you Simon and Schuster, Atria Books, and the author for the ARC copy of this novel.

This novel explores grief in such a raw and real way, that I almost felt as though I was living it. Mai Nguyen takes the reader though the wild ride of the hours after death, through the year of trying to learn how to live with it. I think one of the main things that have been imparted on me because of this novel, was that there is no right way to grieve and you shouldn't let others expectations on how you should grieve effect your processing.

I found this hard to get into, but once I was past the first 4th it was good

Interesting

Knowing this happened to thousands of families, including my ow (and it’s still happening to others) is crazy and sad

I can definitely see how this influenced future vampire fiction

Honestly gave me “Julie Chan is Dead” vibes - though that book came out later

It was fine, kind of boring

Thank you to Simon and Schuster, NetGalley, and the author for the ARC copy of this novel.

I genuinely think this is now one of my new favourites. I felt so connected to Darcy, and a lot of the thoughts she talks about I also relate to. Working in public sector like libraries (or museums in my case) does have a lot of social work aspect, and I think that was covered beautifully in this. The writing was amazing and introspective, and the characters all felt like people I’ve interacted with before. I was honestly imagining my childhood library the entire time I was reading this

concept was interesting but I found it kind of boring. Also I didn't like how it kept switching perspectives.

Fun next installment! A couple editing errors, but fun story