Dead To You

Dead To You

2010 • 243 pages

Ratings5

Average rating4

15

Welp.

First, I'd like to say that our protagonist, Ethan, reminds me of Holden Caufield. He really does. He has that angst about him, not to mention his loving relationship with his precocious little sister.

The writing was conversational and easy to digest, which was kind of surprising for a book dealing with such a dramatic backstory. There's certainly plenty of drama here, but it was surprisingly low-key throughout, considering.

That ending, though. I don't think I've been this angry about an ending since How I Met Your Mother. I'm still going to give this 3/5 for keeping me interested enough to finish it in basically one sitting, but I won't be surprised if I get irrationally upset about this in a week or so and change the rating.

May 12, 2019