My Review of We Could Be Rats by Emily Austen

Title: We Could Be Rats

Author: Emily Austen

Expected Publication: January 28,2025

Publisher: Atria Books

Genre: Fiction/Contemporary/LGBT/MentalHealth/ Realistic Fiction/ Literary Fiction

Pages: 256 pages

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review:

I never knew that I would fall in love with a book so quickly. The way the book was written was very unique as in diary/suicide note entries, which were informative and helped the reader understand what all was going on at the time. 

Sigrid, a lesbian who is barely out of her teens lives in a small conservative town and shes a high school dropout and she never feels like she fits in nor does she feel like she is understood. 

This book was a knockout big time! Sigrid's sister Margit are two completely different people and they grew up in a house where several times there were loud arguments and anger issues. Margit's escape was trying to control everything around her and succeed in any way she could. Sigrid's escape is her imagination, she uses her imagination to create the world she wants to live in. Sigrid is mourning the loss of her friend, the one person she feels like that completely understood her but she lost her to a drug addiction. Then, she is part of a catholic family but she is a lesbian and they all see her as being lesbian as something to get a rise out of everyone they do not understand her for who she is. 

This is a book I could not put down, the story grabs you and you are taken down memory lane. While the main character is a lesbian if you had a dysfunctional family to where you could tell who was walking down the hall based on their footsteps then you should read this. This is a magnificently written book that makes your heart hurt but it also makes you feel not so alone in life. Thank you Emily for writing this and this is not going to be the last book I read written by her! 

Thank you Atria Books for the ARC via Goodreads giveaways I loved the book and I'm singing the praises to anyone who will listen! 

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