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A review by arielmerm8
At the End of the River Styx by Michelle Kulwicki
5.0
This one packs a gut punch... in the best way!
Told in dual POV, we follow two teens: Bastian, living in Portand with his twin brother and grappling with the grief of losing their mom, and Zan, a boy cursed for 500 years to help the Ferryman usher souls to the Underworld. Their paths cross when Bash appears to Zan at the River Styx but doesn't die. What follows is a journey of healing for Bastian as he travels back and forth between his life (where he's failing out of school) and Zan's world (where they travel together through memories along the River Styx). The problem? Zan has to make a choice: lead Bash to the ferryman or sign on for 500 more years.
The book is chock-full of well-developed, flawed characters whose hearts are in the right place. The author writes Bash's grief so well that my heart was breaking every time he relived the car accident that killed his mom. The book is full of remorse, regret, redemption, and sacrifice. It hits like an Adam Silvera book (and y'all know how I LOVE those books)!
Narrators can make or break an audiobook for me, and Dillon Sickels @popsickels and Jeremy Gardner complement each other well.
I received this audio ARC from @netgalley and publisher @dreamscape_media. The opinions are my own.
Told in dual POV, we follow two teens: Bastian, living in Portand with his twin brother and grappling with the grief of losing their mom, and Zan, a boy cursed for 500 years to help the Ferryman usher souls to the Underworld. Their paths cross when Bash appears to Zan at the River Styx but doesn't die. What follows is a journey of healing for Bastian as he travels back and forth between his life (where he's failing out of school) and Zan's world (where they travel together through memories along the River Styx). The problem? Zan has to make a choice: lead Bash to the ferryman or sign on for 500 more years.
The book is chock-full of well-developed, flawed characters whose hearts are in the right place. The author writes Bash's grief so well that my heart was breaking every time he relived the car accident that killed his mom. The book is full of remorse, regret, redemption, and sacrifice. It hits like an Adam Silvera book (and y'all know how I LOVE those books)!
Narrators can make or break an audiobook for me, and Dillon Sickels @popsickels and Jeremy Gardner complement each other well.
I received this audio ARC from @netgalley and publisher @dreamscape_media. The opinions are my own.