Special thanks to NetGalley and Solaris for the ARC copy they provided.
There are two things you always want to find in a book and so rarely do find: Yourself and a good hangover. We Are All Ghosts in the Forest provided both.
A few lines, paragraphs, pages in, I found myself in Katya, the main character, and when I finished reading, I found myself with a book hangover so intense I still haven’t been able to climb into another book and feel at home. I just want THIS book to go on and on and on.
It can’t, of course, and that is both a shame and exactly as it should be.
Lorraine Wilson’s writing is divine in so many ways. Smooth and luxuriant all at once. The characters are real and oh-so human. Even the ones that aren’t human at all. The world is so natural, even in its unnaturalness. And the worldbuilding is so rich it’s like coming home, instead of becoming lost in a book.
I couldn’t possibly say enough about this book, or praise it highly enough. I identified with Katya, and fell for the subtle and not so subtle diversity displayed in We Are All Ghosts in the Forest’s pages.
In the end, I can only hope to fall as deeply in love with this book on my second read through, and all the others that will come after because I will definitely be returning here again.
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