Alix Harrow's Reviews > He Who Drowned the World

absolutely brilliant. it's really something, to be reading an author whose first book left you sobbing, and realize--with a kind of fearful awe--that they were pulling their punches.

but i don't want to scare you off. this is not a book of unrelenting or senseless suffering; at even the bleakest moments, there's the heart-stopping potential for empathy, grace, connection, a vital truth-to-self-- a brightness so stunning that even when it slips past, you can see it on the backs of your eyelids.