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We Are Light by Gerda Blees
4.25
reflective sad slow-paced

When the oldest resident of the Sound & Love Commune dies after determining to live on light and live alone, her fellow residents are all arrested and an investigation ensues. Who is to blame?

Excellent observational prose from unique perspectives; the night, the facts, the scent of oranges….

It is without doubt one of the most original novels I’ve read this year, and I found it incredibly compelling. To watch through these emotionless, yet all-seeing eyes, the events of the novel become fact like. Becoming a study on behaviour, coercion and society itself.