The Heart's Invisible Furies

The Heart's Invisible Furies??? More like The Heart's Invisible Ouchies!!!

This was such a sprawling, interconnected story about unconventional families, finding home, the ripple effects our mistakes and successes can have on ourselves and others, and the ways homophobia and sexism have changed and stayed the same over the last century.

The characters and relationships were compellingly drawn, in a way that felt so real. Even when they made bad choices, even when they were horrible to each other, I found myself feeling empathy towards them. Boyne masterfully crafted all these characters and their stories so that their actions always made sense.

I wish the ending had been a gay wedding tho!!!! It felt like that was what Boyne was setting up, and I appreciate that Catherine got to have a wedding and found someone after everything, but it would've been so nice for Cyril to see a gay wedding in his lifetime :'( Maybe Boyne felt it would've been too contrite, a story perfectly tied up in a pretty bow, but my queer heart would've appreciated it after everything it was put through with this book.

cw for: gay bashing, homophobic slurs, slut-shaming