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Happy Pub Day to Chuck Wendig and The Book of Accidents! Thanks to @delreybooks for an advance copy of this book for review. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Me, 34% of the way through this book: “I have no idea what the fuck is happening.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Me, 86% of the way through this book: “I have some idea of what is happening. I think. Maybe.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Me, 100% of the way through this book: 😱😮😳 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I kept comparing my experience reading this to my experience reading Wanderers and didn’t feel like there was much overlap until I looked at those reactions. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Book of Accidents is a creepy puzzle of a book that defies genre. It’s a story about monsters, but the monsters are ourselves (the killer is always inside the house, am I right?) It’s about violence and bullies and pain, about generational trauma and the things we fear the most. But perhaps most importantly, it’s about humanity. It’s about hope. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Book of Accidents can be confusing as hell, and sometimes feels like too many things at once, but it’s also got a beautiful simplicity: at it’s core is a boy who discovers that in a world full of pain, his empathy isn’t a weakness, but a strength. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the afterword/acknowledgments, Wendig describes the book as, “A story about […] Cycles of abuse and other versions of ourselves and emotional seawalls. About spirals, and families, and mistakes, and love, and empathy and and and… Well, I guess serial killers and ghosts-that-aren’t-ghosts and interstitial liminal voids.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And yeah, I think that about covers it. 🤣 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ TW: graphic violence, death, domestic violence, alcoholism, gun violence, animal death, car accident, loss of a loved one, suicide, hanging, explicit language ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ID: I’m holding a kindle displaying the ebook cover of The Book of Accidents against a cream colored wall. via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CRjU4e6r-Z3/