SuitabookFiendish
Brenna Yovanoff
- Reading
- If the premise raises concerns, read together at first and check in after the opening chapters about the confinement and supernatural suspense. You can decide whether to continue based on your reader’s response.
- Themes
- Blame and community fear: The premise links the townsfolk’s blame of the people in the Willows with the burning of their homes, but does not explain what informs that blame. The premise connects communal blame with severe harm, but does not show whether the story criticises or otherwise endorses the townsfolk’s actions.
- Attraction and danger: Clementine experiences a dangerous attraction to Fisher, the boy who frees her. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to violence and harm.