As the once-secluded world swells above the surface, the lake’s seiches pull Bastián and Lore together again. It’s filled with living papier-mâché alebrijes, each one a representation of Bastián’s anxieties. Now, a mistake Lore desperately wants to leave behind has moved their family to the lakeshore, but the underwater world is not the same quiet refuge. The world wouldn’t open when Bastián tried to show it to anyone else-not until Lore needed a place to hide on a day long before they knew one another’s names. No one has seen it except Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia. No one believes the legends about the world beneath the lake anymore. The rising waters of a hidden world threaten to drown Bastián and Lore, two trans nonbinary Mexican American teens, in the truths and pasts they’ve tried to cast away. “I thought you might.” “I knew that too.” Fans of Brooks’s Martyn Pig, Kissing the Rain, Candy and Lucas, won’t be disappointed by this thrilling, gritty story and it’s memorable, heart-breaking characters. that’s what I’m thinking.” “I knew that,” I told him.

The brothers’ relationship develops through the action, in Brooks’s signature poetic prose and humorous banter: “I need to know what you’re thinking sometimes.” “You know what I’m thinking.” “I need to hear it.”. What follows is suspenseful and ultimately violent-though filtered through Ruben’s nonviolent perspective. He and his older brother Cole travel to a desolate village in search of the killer, so that the coroner will release the body for burial.

“When the Dead Man got Rachel I was sitting in the back of a wrecked Mercedes wondering if the rain was going to stop.” So it is that 14-year-old Ruben, who can read minds, vicariously witnesses his sister’s murder.

The road of the dead by kevin brooks