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Long Bright River by Liz Moore
5.0

This book is breathtaking. I love a book that's so magical I can't look away. Like the world completely ceases to exist because I'm so absorbed in this book. The writing is amazing. Whatever Liz Moore writes, her writing is always so gorgeous. It doesn't matter so much what the story is because just her writing alone is enough to blow me away. She makes any story worth reading.

The actually story of this was great, though. It's about a cop and her sister who's a drug addicted sex worker. The family relationships in this are beautifully captured, both negative and positive. It feels real. Like these people's lives are so fully formed that you can really see who they are. Everything about it was amazing.

I don't even know how to talk about this book and all the good things. It's stunning. Maybe not my favorite Liz Moore book, but The Unseen World is literally my favorite book of all time and this is possibly my favorite book since reading that one. She's an amazing writer and I can't recommend this enough.

You ever read a book that you can't review because it was too good?