Boris Krischel

My favorite of Stalenhag's books! It has by far the best story of the four I have read, a fascinatingly dark short story that it massively improved by the accompanying art. While the art is a lot darker, sometimes less interesting because of it, the combination with the strong story makes it fit. While sometimes with his books it feels like he draws art first, and then thinks of a story to vaguely connect the images, here it is the other way around.

Not sure what the general consesus is, but I liked this book more then the original. Really good, and with such an ending, I guess I have to read the third book as well. I have watched the movies at some point, but I barely remember them, so every twist and turn still surprised me.

Found the Hunger Games Trilogy in a second-hand section of a bookstore and decided to give it a shot. I had heard a lot of good things about it, especially that it is considered a modern classic. And I did really enjoy it! It reads very quickly, it is very easy to read. No need to reread section or reall think about things multiple times, so I finished it quickly. Of course the constant tension and good pacing helped too. I do think sometimes things went a bit too fast for my liking? Like, there are section that I found important and would have liked to linger on longer, but the story just moves so fast. But maybe that is just a thing of young-adult novels, I don"t read them often...

Man, I really love Elizabeth Bedlam’s writing. There’s just something so fascinating about her characters and the way she writes them. This was the first full-length novel by her that I’ve read, and I loved getting to spend more time with the main character and really sit with all her struggles.

Like in Bedlam’s other work, mental illness plays a huge role here, but it’s written with a lot of care and honesty. The main character feels messy and real, and it’s genuinely sad seeing how hard normal relationships and everyday life can be for her. The whole book has this uncomfortable, intimate atmosphere that really got under my skin.

Because it’s self-published, the edition I read had some formatting and editing issues here and there, but honestly I didn’t care much because the actual writing and character work were so strong.

I seriously can’t recommend Bedlam’s work enough.