Icarus

Beautiful. The kind of prose you sink into. I saw someone in a review say that this book reminded them that they love language, and I agree. 

Reading this book gave me like ASMR brain tingles I think??? It just like activated me. I love pretentious fictional teens. The premise is so like over the top but I was along for the ride. I think a certain flavor of teen could make this book their whole personality.

I am docking one star because it's supposed to be set in an American “small town” where “everyone knows everyone” but it has a bus that runs every 30 minutes? This is stolen small town valor.

Marvelous and strange. The love story was to die for, but the chapters in which Icarus's “classroom friends” evolved into real friends were arguably my favorites. I'm a sucker for a lonely boy who finds support and caring in a high school setting (god knows I never did), especially from jock bros.

I yield the floor to my esteemed colleague ancientreader for her eloquent review, without which I would have missed this wonderful fever dream of a novel.