✧ — 4.8 stars with my entire body.

❝Missing is a way of loving too.❞

Agnes at the End of the World takes your heart away and will never give it back. This is a beautifully written book that explores healing and choice, the things you leave behind and sometimes take back.

The writing was brilliant and moving, so intricate that it dug into a part of you gently and rooted there. Agnes is a wonderful heroine, who is a refugee of her experience in her restrictive religious community ( it's a cult, y'all ) and her experience with restrictive men.

I loved almost every single character in this novel, even the ones I started hating at the beginning.

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( except for the prophet and all those men in the cult, f**k y'all )

Kelly McWilliams makes it easy for you to empathize and care about the people she's introduced you to, and I think that's amazing.

I'm too full of emotions and words to write a better review, but please, please, read this. It's such an important book to read, and I could not tell you why but I just know. I was so proud of the ending too because it's human, and unexpected but you understand it.

I read this in one day, and it was perfect.

You don't just read about Agnes, you heal with her. And she forgives you too.

❝I wish I could tell you that before the end, I wasn't afraid.❞

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