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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
funny
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Although frustrating and repetitive and without a point(very descriptive) at first, it lures you in like the slow dewy Carribean summers, and keeps sinking you deeper and deeper into emotional turmoil and characters’ attempts to deal with life until they finally let you go, having resolved their quests.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
very well-written as in. pero ang plot okay ra man =) ambot kay basin ako ra'y di kaayo ganahan lab lab hehe pero nindot jud kaayo pagkasuwat
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book as me twisted 😭
It isn’t about perfect romance — it’s about the messy, contradictory ways people love.
Márquez shows love as a spectrum: obsessive and loyal, fleeting and lustful, patient and selfish, often all at the same time. Florentino’s decades-long devotion to Fermina sits alongside a lifetime of affairs, blurring the line between emotional loyalty and physical betrayal. In this world, cheating isn’t always about cruelty — sometimes it’s about loneliness, desire, and the aching need to feel alive.
Here, love can be both selfless and selfish, nourishing and destructive. It doesn’t fit into neat moral boxes. Even Fermina’s marriage to Dr. Juvenal Urbino, though mostly faithful, has its moments of doubt, compromise, and distance. By the time she and Florentino find each other again in old age, you realize their love has endured not because it was pure, but because it was stubborn — strong enough to survive pride, time, and the slow fading of youth.😭
Márquez doesn’t dress love up as something flawless. He makes it human: tangled with desire, betrayal, forgiveness, and the desperate will to hold on to the one thing that makes life feel worth living.
By the final page, love feels less like a cure than a fever — stubborn, intoxicating, and impossible to shake, just like the cholera that shadows their lives.
Note the time only cholera mentioned😂
It isn’t about perfect romance — it’s about the messy, contradictory ways people love.
Márquez shows love as a spectrum: obsessive and loyal, fleeting and lustful, patient and selfish, often all at the same time. Florentino’s decades-long devotion to Fermina sits alongside a lifetime of affairs, blurring the line between emotional loyalty and physical betrayal. In this world, cheating isn’t always about cruelty — sometimes it’s about loneliness, desire, and the aching need to feel alive.
Here, love can be both selfless and selfish, nourishing and destructive. It doesn’t fit into neat moral boxes. Even Fermina’s marriage to Dr. Juvenal Urbino, though mostly faithful, has its moments of doubt, compromise, and distance. By the time she and Florentino find each other again in old age, you realize their love has endured not because it was pure, but because it was stubborn — strong enough to survive pride, time, and the slow fading of youth.😭
Márquez doesn’t dress love up as something flawless. He makes it human: tangled with desire, betrayal, forgiveness, and the desperate will to hold on to the one thing that makes life feel worth living.
By the final page, love feels less like a cure than a fever — stubborn, intoxicating, and impossible to shake, just like the cholera that shadows their lives.
Note the time only cholera mentioned😂
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes