Your Shadow Half Remains

The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage.

ONE LOOK CAN KILL.

Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive.

But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Riley’s overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind. Somehow, in this world where other people can mean a gruesome, bloody death, Ellis makes her feel safe. As they grow closer, Riley’s grip on reality begins to slip and she can no longer fight her deepest desires.

All Riley wants to do is look.

“A refreshingly original take on dystopian fiction, Moraine's latest is as haunting as it is thought provoking.” Booklist (STARRED review)

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176 pages

Average rating: 4.8

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troyliketroybolton
Dec 31, 2024
5/10 stars
This was one of my first ventures with an unreliable narrator, and I think it could get me hooked. It took a while for me to acclimate since I was not as familiar with the trope as I had previously thought. However, I love a queer book, and I love a dystopian book even more. I thought the idea of a genderless love interest was interesting because the element of sight was out, but would have also loved more descriptors of the character not based on sight just so I could “visualize” them better (bad choice of word, I know). Overall super twisty, a little confusing, but overall a quick read and an interesting concept.

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