![]() ![]() Through flashbacks, and from alternating perspectives, Hartnett’s grim, beautifully written tale of adolescent yearnings gone awry gradually unfolds. YA)Ī literary psychological thriller, hauntingly told, of a lonely, ostracized boy who “since childhood had been building a wall meant to protect from the worst of the harm.” Anwell, renamed Gabriel, “the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths,” is 20 years old and dying of an unnamed illness. “I thought you might.” “I knew that too.” Fans of Brooks’s Martyn Pig, Kissing the Rain, Candy and Lucas, won’t be disappointed by this thrilling, gritty story and it’s memorable, heart-breaking characters. that’s what I’m thinking.” “I knew that,” I told him. The brothers’ relationship develops through the action, in Brooks’s signature poetic prose and humorous banter: “I need to know what you’re thinking sometimes.” “You know what I’m thinking.” “I need to hear it.”. ![]() ![]() What follows is suspenseful and ultimately violent-though filtered through Ruben’s nonviolent perspective. He and his older brother Cole travel to a desolate village in search of the killer, so that the coroner will release the body for burial. ![]() “When the Dead Man got Rachel I was sitting in the back of a wrecked Mercedes wondering if the rain was going to stop.” So it is that 14-year-old Ruben, who can read minds, vicariously witnesses his sister’s murder. ![]()
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