A review by hongjoongie
The Fell by Sarah Moss

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

She sits up, turns on the bedside light. One day, one hour approaching minute by minute, second by second, she'll be dead. In the time she's spent thinking this thought, the moment has come closer. One morning will be her last morning, one sleepless night, one waking, the last. A last set of clothes, brushing of hair and teeth. There'll be no more feeling in her skin, no more thinking in her mind or seeing in her eyes, blood will still and pool and darken, muscles set in their last form, skin begin to shrink. She will have to face the end just as everyone else has, her parents and her brother and Mark himself, who she thinks probably did know what was happening, just those final few minutes, the pain suddenly not indigestion at all, the fall, the last look of question and outrage, because even what they call a sudden death happens in time, must be endured, and how do you not know, how do you not think, that your own turn will come, that we all go into the darkness and end? How is that not frightening? Stop it, she thinks, stop it … 

Wonderful writing and depiction of the debilitating effects of isolation.