I Must Betray You

If you stayed up too late to finish reading this because you simply couldn't put it down, yawn at work!



Oh it's me. Worth it though. God Ruta Sepetys is SO GOOD at ~making history come alive~ and in this case just immediately putting you in the world of the 1989 Romanian surveillance state, how every interaction becomes SO FRAUGHT and so high stakes even if it's just sharing a snack with a friend. SO GRIPPING. SO COMPELLING.

And yet also ultimately hopeful.

Also this is going to sound shady but sincerely: love that it's not very long. She really gets in and gets out and accomplishes the whole mood without needing to be 500 pages. This book keeps it moving just like MY PULSE while I was READING IT, I'm so stressed.

Also realizing that I knew basically nothing about Romania before this. So interesting and infuriating!! And timely too, just that the mechanism of the surveillance state has shifted and grown.

God this book was GREAT.