This was a unique story but one that sucked me in pretty quickly. It's set in a modern-day boys boarding school in Dublin and involves young love, time travel, and death. Weird yes, but fantastically written. I highly recommend it. ( )

Am amazing and at the same time, terrible, book.

Almost everyone in the book is capable of terrible things. If you think the adolescents are confused about love because they are young and going through puberty, wait until you see what the teachers and priests do.
There are some very funny parts in this book, and other parts that may make you want to throw up…. Sometimes they are the same parts.

The author made me feel sympathy for the devil . I think, in our current inflexible and judgmental society, someone who is good at reminding us that people are human and capable of both the depths of depravity and of acts of shining goodness is a valuable thing. ( )

First half was a five, last hundred pages lost me. Still, loved the parts I loved. ( )

Here's what I wrote in 2011 about this read: "WOW. What a punch this packs. Totally modern (example, the teens text videos) and broadsweeping. Skippy dies; who contributed and who (all) ignored the signs? Lori and Ruprecht survive and will carry on." A bit surprisingy, I can't recall a thing about it here in 2023. ( )

This was a fantastic book, probably my favourite book this year. So many different characters and pieces falling in and out of the story. Brilliant, funny, sad, exhausting, I loved every bit of it. ( )