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I won a signed copy of Nova Ren Suma’s The Walls Around Us in February of 2016–right around the time my barely-one-year-old was being evaluated for tubes. (She hadn’t slept through the night in 6 months.) I was perpetually exhausted at that point in my life; I’m still trying to catch up on the books I received then. To that end I started The Walls Around Us a few weeks ago and quickly discovered two things:
- It’s beautifully, hauntingly, incredibly written.
- It’s also WAY darker than my usual fare.
That combination generally messes with my head a bit, you know? Something that well written ends up insinuating itself into my awareness to a degree that the darkness is more than I prefer to live with; I therefore handed it over to my friend Britt, who reads darker fare more quickly than I do. For your reading pleasure, here is her guest review!
4 stars
On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement.
On the inside, within the walls of the Aurora Hills juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom.
Tying their two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries…
What really happened on the night Orianna stepped between Violet and her tormentors? What really happened on two strange nights at Aurora Hills? Will Amber and Violet and Orianna ever get the justice they deserve—in this life or in another one?
In prose that sings from line to line, Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and of innocence, and of what happens when one is mistaken for the other.