At the End of the River Styx

Actual rating 4.5 stars. Zan sounded like Bastian felt on the heels of a panic attack. Scared and anxious, like he couldn’t catch a breath. Bastian is lost since his mom died in a car incident. The car incident HE caused. His identical twin brother, Dorian, escaped physically unscathed, but Bastian st......more

This is a solid 4.5 stars, but rounding up. Thank you to NetGalley, Page Street Publishing and Page Street YA for the ARC! This was, first and foremost, a story about grief. In modern-day Portland, Bastian is grieving the loss of his mother and processing the trauma of a car accident that should have......more

I very much wanted to love this book, but I did not. Grief is a tricky thing to write about, and there are a few times in this book where it’s handled thoughtfully and carefully. I appreciated those parts. Unfortunately, a book about grief works only as well as the characters experiencing it, and the......more

Well, this was WILDLY underwhelming. I basically hated/couldn't be bothered with all of the characters, except for Zan and Mathais. I sympathised with Bastian and could understand his motivations to some extent, but he really was kind of a big, gaping, selfish, self-centered asshole. I especially desp......more

A book with a really unique world building, switching between two different planes of existence (lacking a better description for it), which has a strong symbolism as Bastian struggles to move on with his life after the accident that took his mother away from him. His lifeline is death's threshold:......more