There are so many reasons why I love this book but if I talked about them all, we’d be here for years. It’s also very hard to read in the sense that a lot of the content is blood curdling and sickening, but Adam and Julian are two of the sweetest, most compelling characters I have ever come across and reading their story is not only important but a joy. This book will literally give you everything you could need in a story. Though I have to warn you of its depiction of child abuse. Whatever the case, please please do get yourself a copy of this book and read it today. If my badly written, basic summary of this book doesn’t inspire you to go and pick up this book NOW, I am deeply sorry.
Adam desperately wants to help him, but doing so might put both his and Julian’s lives at great risk… As Adam and Julian spend more time together and become close again, Adam eventually realises that Julian is hiding many things, including what really happens behind closed doors in his house.
He turns out to be Adam’s foster brother Julian who he hasn’t seen for five years and while Adam is ecstatic to see him again, Julian is troubled and wary around everyone, even the big brother and friend he opened up to years ago. When Adam becomes the new aide for the school psychologist in his senior year at school, the doctor asks him to track down a freshman who never turns up for his sessions. If you don’t know much about this book, it’s about two boys who used to be foster brothers. I am always so thrilled to find another favourite book and A List of Cages is one hundred percent that.Īs a firm believer of not giving any spoilers away whatsoever in my reviews, I will probably keep this review fairly short because it’s a book that is really hard to talk about in the way it deserves. I am just so grateful to Robin Roe for writing this and being able to share it with the world, with me. I thought to myself how I would love more than anything to be a writer who can make a reader feel so many things in 300 pages. As an aspiring writer, I had to stop reading several times during this book to consider the fact that someone wrote it, someone wrote these brilliant, touching words and strung them together in such an incredible, honest way. Though this may not be the first time I’ve been similarly astonished by a book being so perfect beyond my understanding of what perfect is (I do have a lot of favourite books, after all), A List of Cages has completely blown me away and I can’t think of a book that has moved me quite so much in recent years. I am astonished that a book as perfect as this exists. ~ I read this a month ago and wow, I can’t believe I didn’t read it sooner~
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