High-brow or downright pretentious, good PNR or sparkly vampires, I don't care about the premise so long as it entertains me.
Or perhaps, now that publishers have taken to comparing everything to John Green, I've picked up the habit as well?
In all honesty, though, Tender makes me think of what Augustus' character would have been like, if taken to certain extremes. There is a lot of nihilistic musings about our worthless existence in there, masking a very real fear of the afterlife, but we also see what a character like that might act like.
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