I just finished “The Half Life of Valery K” by Natasha Pulley.  In all her books, Natasha Pulley writes terrible things happening and acknowledges they are terrible, but the characters are so engaging and there is a sweetness that keeps you reading.  This one is no exception, and it has a whole HOST of trigger warnings.  I’m sure you can look them up, but the biggest one for me was nuclear accidents and radiation sickness. (It may seem odd for this to be my biggest one considering what all happens in the book, but there is personal history there.) This #book is a bit of a thriller, and a bit of a character study, and it’s queer.  And there’s an octopus named Albert who steals the TV remote.  So.

This one will stay with me for a while.