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Thorne is pretty masterful with dialogue.

Does Oisín ever understand anxiety…

”He then begins to think: what is the correct way to stand?

How should a person at a party arrange their limbs?

These become pressing questions. He has one hand in his pocket, using his house keys to rip skin from his fingertips. One hand dutches a beer, denting the tin.”

Amongst many other human experiences and emotions he so simply lays out in print…oof…

There’ll be a redeeming chapter and then cringeworthy shit like this:

”I have killed, and I have died. More is to be mined from this curse.

Somewhere in my body lies a metaphorical womb, waiting for the seed of murder—the fallopian, a passage of rite. No guilt will exorcise this evil that impregnates us with its gory deeds.”

Oh man, is Oisín ever skilled at just casually yanking on the heart strings with the turn of a paragraph.

regardless of their experienced traumas, everyone in this book seems utterly terrible

and now, to casually check something off the "most disturbing books ever written" list..

Will this never end? Am I about to pull a rare DNF?