A review by bookitchewie
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood

4.0

This was a really difficult, but highly readable book. It was so fast-paced, I couldn't put it down. It was told so honestly, neither sensationalizing nor glossing over the triggering elements. Wavy was raw and tenacious, and by the end I think you fully understand why Wavy makes the choices she does, and it feels fated, or maybe just inevitable.
What other path could she have taken, with the parents she had and trauma she suffered? I don't think I ever saw Kellen as a sympathetic character, but he certainly paid for what he did, and by the end you can see that he's fully devoted to Wavy and a good surrogate father to Don. Wavy seems to fully understand at the end why the relationship was wrong, but you get the sense that it was the lesser-of-two-evils.
Just because someone loves you, doesn't mean they can't hurt you.
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