We Burned So Bright [Large Print]

By T.J. Klune

Book Overview

A LibraryReads pick An Indie Next pick Most anticipated from People Magazine, The Portalist, Nerd Daily, Page Six, Parade, Spokesman Review. Featured in: The New York Times, SFF Insiders, New... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQ8NVTTJ
• ISBN13: 9798891648784
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Center Point
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Feels like a soon-to-be Netflix movie

A quick and easy read. No revelations or deep insights ... a summer frolic with characters and predictable sentimentality.

Shining bright in the dark!

This is a beautiful and heartbreaking tale of humanity at its best and worst when it is inevitable to escape the end of the world! And what and ending it is. To have the world swallowed (or stretched) by a traveling black hole, it really gets the point across that you should not put off important things. Though the last road trip of Rodney and Don is certainly memorable and makes for a wonderful story as they meet interesting (and sometimes scary) people, some celebrating the last moments of life around a bonfire and connecting with others, others on the run and denying the inevitability of the black hole in thinking they can find a place to wait out the end, and others going a bit crazy and self destructive but willing to take others out too to spare them the pain. It was all very believable in how people would act in that situation I think. And don't forget all the emotions! T.J. Klune really knows how to get the reader to feel everything, laugh and cry and sigh. Don and Rodney, as the main characters go through it all, helped by jumps to the past to get the full picture of why they needed this last journey. And yes, the end is so heartbreaking yet beautiful! The title is very apt and I love how it brings up that every human burns bright with our lives and we are stars shining in the dark so that even the end of the world is not the end. This was an awesome audiobook! The narrator, Kirt Graves, did an excellent job in bringing Don and Rodney and their last trip as the world ends in a spectacular way to life. I laughed, I cried, and loved the whole story! Many thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for giving me the chance to experience this audiobook!