Where the Dead Sit Talking

3.5 Rounded up.

I'm not entirely sure what I read, it was confusing at times, uncomfortable at times and sometimes very dark, it felt like perhaps the most real coming of age narrative I have ever read and entirely alien at the same time.
For the ace/sex repulsed in the room: approach with care the MC thinks about sex and sexual violence a fair bit and sometimes it comes at you seemingly out of the blue. That being said I wouldn't say this book is particularly horny, the approach to sex is rather neutral (the main character speaks rather neutrally of just about everything).