The Walls Around Us is a very different story, about friendship, lies and what it really means to be trapped, both inside your head and in the world around you. If someone were to ask me what I thought of this right after I finished, I would have to say spooky yet brilliant! Disclaimer: this is probably attributed to the fact that I finished at 3 a.m.
There was something so eerie about the writing that it got to me. The pain you were meant to feel was wafting out of each word- all the while, you were DYING to know what really happened-because the little things tell you that what you're being allowed to see isn't the whole picture.
"We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't make heads or tails of the darkness, so we couldn't see how close we were to the end."
You're told the story in two voices – Violet and Amber – one trapped with the voices in her head and the other, physically. Both girls, with voices scratchy, gritty, filled with hope and despair meet Orianna, albeit in different circumstances. Orianna – who would see colour in the greyest of places, who would do nice things just because she could, Orianna – the girl who murdered in cold blood.
"The last time I was out there, in the world, I was thirteen. The last time I saw my mother, she'd turned her back on me like I was the bullet."
I honestly don't have the words to describe the book- it was just everything you could expect from a spooky book, and lived up to all the things it promised it would be!
My only drawback would be that my practical head had tons of questions that I would have loved to find the answers too- but didn't get- making the ending one big question mark for me!
My Verdict: Prepare to be Astounded!
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