Hostile

“The kind of ache you don't actually want to get rid of.”

Cried at a line about a coat. A COAT.

every chapter ends one sentence too soon and I mean that as the highest praise.

Came for the plot. Stayed because chapter three left me on the floor.

“Felt like eavesdropping on something I wasn't meant to hear. Couldn't stop.”

the engine didn't rush them and that's the entire point. devastating restraint, genuinely.

“Read it twice. Reading it a third time. This is a confession, not a review.”

“I don't leave reviews. I'm leaving this one on the floor, where it left me.”