Comfort Me with Apples

3.5/5

This book had such beautiful prose it really drew me in from the start. Everything was suppose to be perfect, but overtime cracks begin to form over the perfect veneer of Sophia’s world.

I enjoyed the tumble into the strangeness, the odd things that happened and the peculiar neighbors in the community. It felt so surreal and clearly wrong and yet Sophia kept trying to pretend it was all okay. I was excited to figure out what was happening and when it finally came together I was honestly a bit disappointed. It was a bit too religious for my liking and I kind of wish I knew the concept ahead of time.

But despite the ending I still think it was a good book otherwise. The prose was beautiful and I wish we had something more in that style as I would have otherwise loved it!

Hmmm. Interesting and bleak. A super quick read, but once you get it, well, it loses some of its impact. Or at least it did to me.

4.5 stars. i have a sneaking suspicion that Valente will become one of my favorite authors.