This story is a journey of self discovery in the most traumatic of ways. No two humans are the same, we all deal and come to terms with things in different ways and that's exactly what this novel show us.⁠⠀

The stunning conclusion to the riveting Gregor the Overlander series by bestselling author Suzanne Collins. urn:lcp:mysteriousskinno00heim:lcpdf:4630051a-157b-4f3c-8831-bacb276b292a Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mysteriousskinno00heim Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9475gh1t Isbn 9780060926861

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When Brian and Neil do recall their memories - my heart and mind were one and the same - trapped in the memory with them - one I did not want to remember 'the forbidden moment' but had to - for their sakes.❤️‍🩹 When Brian held his hand and said 'speak. it's time' for him to reveal the meaning behind those painful words 'open your eyes, it will feel good' the shift in their pov - Brian's visceral reaction to the truth - and how Neil held onto him - it was so powerfully captured, so achingly hurtful that just left me reeling at the intensity of it. 😭😭 The writing shined in this one pivotal scene alone that grips you by the heart of what Neil has to admit to and Brian has to accept with a haunting final realization. Soft cover. Condition: New. Language:Chinese.Author:ZHANG REN.Binding:Soft cover.Publisher:concentric Press Pub. Date :2007-09-01.

When I first read this book, I was disgruntled by the constant change in narration. We visit Neil, then Brian, then secondary characters whose importance I long debated. Many times, I wished the novel would stay with Neil, whose point-of-view I found most interesting. What I grew to understand upon rereading the novel was that Heim changes point-of-view with great, well-thought ambition. He is showing us, through the eyes of a variety of characters, how the devastations of Neil and Brian’s youth have affected them and, because of that, no detail is ever censored. Relationships intertwine, and secondary characters prove significance.I thought the color metaphor of Brian's memory of the skin of his "abductor" changing slowly from blue to white especially remarkable, as well as skin imagery throughout. Skin imagery is a kind of plot-moving or foreshadowing angle that I don't recall much in the novels I read.