Thanks to VERVE Books and NetGalley for my advanced reader copy of this book. This review contains my honest thoughts.

TW: pregnancy loss, miscarriage, police violence.

An emotional novella that captures an interracial couple trying to conceive after pregnancy loss, Blue Hour is a beautiful stream-of-consciousness book. While I found it hard to follow since this style of writing is really not for me, I appreciated the narrator’s meditation of motherhood, race, bringing up race, grief, and injustices in the police force. Our narrator is a biracial woman who is straddling the emotions of miscarriage and motherhood, amidst witnessing the violence endured by Black people in the US at the hands of the police amongst others. Does she want to bring her Black child into the world like this? It felt like an important read if only for the themes, since I feel like I didn’t quite spend enough time with our protagonists to feel any deeper.