This book was: heart wrenching, depressing, lovable, and just downright amazing.

The main character, Jude, has been through a lot in life. More heart wrenching things than someone should have to go through. These events resulted in him participating in self harm and believing that he wasn't worthy of love. Throughout his life, he will find the love of family through friends and his adopted parents, Harold and Julia, and a relationship with his friend Willem.

I couldn't help but fall in love with the relationship of Jude and Willem, it was truly a relationship that Jude deserved. The friendship between Jude and Andy was truly something above a doctor and patient relationship, but it was obvious that Jude needed someone that cared about him more than just a doctor.

There were a few times that I said out loud, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO THE READER?". However, even though I still felt the same way at the end of the book, I couldn't help but realize that this book is a true masterpiece.

I think that A Little Life will be a book that later generations will call a classic. This book was a fantastic buddy read and would also be a good read for those who want to read a specific kind of book for Pride month.

Thank you, Hanya, for giving us Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcom. For breaking my heart. For making me want to throw this book at the wall. This was truly a masterpiece and it just may be one of my top ten books of all time.

Triggers: Self-harm, suicide, domestic abuse, and sexual abuse.

Quotes:
-"If you love home — and even if you don't — there is nothing quite as cozy, as comfortable, as delightful, as that first week back. That week, even the things that would irritate you — the alarm waahing from some car at three in the morning; the pigeons who come to clutter and click on the windowsill behind your bed when you're trying to sleep in — seem instead reminders of your own permanence, of how life, your life, will always graciously allow you to step back inside it, no matter how far you have gone away from it or how long you have left it."

-"You pounce upon the happy moments, you hold them up as proof — even though that one moment cannot compensate for all the other moments, the majority of moments. See? This is why it's worth living. This is why I've been making him try."

-"The thing he hadn't realized about success was that success made people boring. Failure also made people boring, but in a different way failing people were constantly striving for one thing — success. But successful people were also only striving to maintain their success. It was the different between running and running in place, and although running was boring no matter what, at least the person running was moving..."