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A review by meredith_w
Behind You by Catherine Hernandez
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
I read this quickly - despite it's difficult and dark subject matter, this was very readable. In 'Behind You', Hernandez does a great job depicting what it must have felt like living through a particularly fearful and unsettling time of Toronto's past. I appreciated how Hernandez highlighted how women and girls were impacted differently than men (and boys). At times, the writing and messaging felt heavy-handed (similar to how I felt reading Hernandez's sophomore novel 'Crosshairs'). I loved Hernandez's debut novel 'Scarborough', and I've yet to find that magic in her follow-up books.