3.5, rounding up. The Barrow Will Send What it May is the second in the Danielle Cain series and the sequel to The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion. The series follows Danielle and her friends who, at the beginning of the text, hitchhike with a driver who tells them she used to be dead but came back; things only get stranger from there. I think I actually liked this one better than the first book – it had fun characters and a fast plot (perhaps a bit too fast moving at some points), but the politics and the punk felt less didactic and forced and more natural in this one. 

It somehow took me three years after reading the first book in this series to pick up this one. On that basis, I would say this almost reads as standalone. The plot of this novella is relatively self-contained; however, if one started here they’d miss out on character development so I’d suggest starting with the first book in the series before reading this one. 

Content warnings: violence, gun violence, death, murder, injury detail, car accident, brief mention of transphobia, brief mention of cancer