I couldn’t even tell you how I ended up with this book. It languished in the TBR for a while. And then, when I finally picked it up, it’s kind of a slow start. And I didn’t understand why there was this whole secondary story going on.

And then. And then the story picked up, and I got to see not just a family on the run, but how that family changed shape while they were running. All of the things they had to run through. All the risks they took for the mere hope of something resembling safety. And how that secondary story relates. Just… holy at the whole thing.

It was also cool seeing some synesthesia rep!