Lovely, Dark and Deep

Turns out I don't have much else to say about Jepp, Who Defied the Stars. I certainly enjoyed it, and I love that it deals with the question of fate versus free will and I can recommend it, but I just don't have much else to offer.

And I'm not sure how much I can say about my next selection, Amy McNamara's Lovely, Dark and Deep. To be honest, I'm a little worried about reading this book. I've plowed through the first 80 pages already and the language is gorgeous and affecting. But the story deals with grief and depression and it plunges you into that so deeply that...yeah, I worry. I can't empathize with Wren's crushing grief, but I'm finding her story to be a little too resonant for this rather lonely girl and I just don't know how smart it is to willingly dig myself into melancholy like this.

Let's be honest, though. I'm not going to stop reading. I just wanted to say out loud-ish that this might be a tough book for me to deal with. And maybe a tough book for other people to deal with, which is maybe an important thing to acknowledge if I'm going to talk about it and/or recommend it.