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You are here: Home / Entertainment / We Burned So Bright by T. J. Klune – Book Review

We Burned So Bright by T. J. Klune – Book Review

26 July 2026 by Dee Young Leave a Comment

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We Burned So Bright by T. J. Klune – Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good, long life. Together, they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world.

Now, the world is ending for real. A wandering black hole is coming for Earth, and in a month, everything and everyone they’ve ever known will be gone.

Suddenly, after forty years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They’re in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it’s all over.

On the road, they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. But there are also people living their final days as best they know how – impromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, new friends.

And as the black hole draws near, among ball lightning and under a cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough.

This is another exciting read from this extremely talented and innovative author. Imagine the fear and chaos if a black hole headed for Earth. What would you need to do if the world, as you know it, were to end? How would you spend your last days? A thought-provoking and infinitely scary novel. Enjoy the wild ride to possible extinction!

ISBN: 9781035009428

We Burned So Bright is available in hardback, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats.

About TJ Klune

TJ Klune is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the Green Creek series for adults, the Extraordinaries series for teens and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it’s important – now more than ever – to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

Filed Under: Books, Entertainment Tagged With: adventure, book, fantasy, fiction, LGBT romance, review

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