REVIEW: The Dying Light: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Sixteen year old Charlie Carroway has been through some shit. Thats the mild way of putting it.
Despite his best efforts to get out of the terrible circumstances in which he finds himself, Charlie fights to remain strong physically and mentally without losing himself to the corruptions of his surroundings.

I enjoyed this story mainly because of how well the trauma and subsequent support and growth from that trauma is shown. There are some TRIGGERING elements in this books that broke me but the relationship building between Charlie and his new found alliances, helped to soothe those pains which was awesome.

I had a few issues with the pacing and sometimes being unsure of where I was in terms of location. The villains while horrific excuses for human beings ticked all the villain boxes, always popped up at the right (wrong lol) time which felt toooo coincidental.

Outside of that, this is a good read with so many layers of emotion that though difficult, are necessary for reader understanding and of course Charlie’s healing.