 | We Can Never Leave Author: Edgmon, H. E. | |
| Price: $15.75 | ||
Summary:
Five teenage travelers, left behind when their community of inhuman creatures mysteriously disappears, must uncover the truth about what happened while grappling with their own hidden secrets.
Reviews:
Booklist (+) (12/01/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 05/01/2025 *Starred Review* Nobody really knows much about the Caravan—not the Caravan-born and certainly not the Caravan-acquired. This patchwork community of the inhuman and magically gifted travels the U.S. in a cluster of camper vans, collecting children like them along the way, but their mechanisms and motivations remain a mystery. When the entire Caravan disappears into thin air and leaves Hugo, Bird, Felix, Eamon, and Calliope behind, the five are forced to struggle through the tangled knots of their intertwined histories to find a safe place to land. And it is a struggle; as Edgmon breaks the fourth wall to assert, this is not a heartwarming story about teens learning to set aside their differences and love one another. Each character is complicated, messy, and angry in their own way, and while the novel’s resolution is satisfying, it is more haunting than happy. The astounding beauty of the prose unnervingly normalizes the often gruesome content, folding the reader seamlessly into the mindsets of the teens who are far from recognizing their own severe trauma. Overall, more mystery than action and complete with a potentially daunting six-POV, dual–time line narration, the enthralling storytelling and deeply flawed characters make this a top choice for readers up for a challenge. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
