The Cost of Knowing

this book changed me as a person

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How many hands can I put this in because I want it in all of them. This and Legendborn. This book was such a heartbreak. It's a great work of fiction but there's more real here than not tbh and it's fucking spectacular and it should make you sad. And it should make you really damn angry.

The whole book was just tension upon tension, waiting for the worst to happen. And then it does...it is barely a blip.

Alex gets over the death of his brother like it is nothing. And to the reader, it is nothing, because it is never acknowledged. In one day, in the book, a boy is killed in Alex's neighborhood, a concert he is attending has a mass shooting, and his brother is run over by a car. And the next day, he just goes on. Not grieving, not anything.

Then there's the repetition of the ‘cancelling' each vision. He grabs a wallet, cancels the vision of pulling out his id, pulls out his id, cancels the vision of sliding it across the counter. This is the phrasing that happens every time Alex has a vision.

Two stars because the premise is so good and some of the beginning is strong, but it just fails.