Reviews

Una vita come tante by Hanya Yanagihara

dnl83ldn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

mariannenicole's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

offbrandmusclemilk's review against another edition

5.0

beautiful, difficult wreckage

This is so good, maybe the best book I've read, and half the time I hated reading it. I can't decide if this is a book I should never pick up again, or if I should read it every few years to gauge where I'm at in life.

poisonivynemesis's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

sseul1's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

I love and hate this book as much as I had to stop reading and cry 

nichecase's review against another edition

1.0

nauseatingly solipsistic - everything happens to jude, good or bad. even the lives of other characters before they met jude serve only as mirrors - sickness and disability is a particularly prominent, grating example of this, with close family members being ill and/or disabled and dying in the backstories of willem, caleb and harold. even jb's drug addiction mirrors jude's own addiction to self-harm. this is not a novel that is about capital-L Life in any shape or form - despite its length (which could easily be cut down), yanagihara tries to make life manageable and explicable in some form, even if it means that all paths must lead to the same road. which isn't how life works.

hannahmwilliams's review against another edition

5.0

This is the saddest, most brutal, most truthful thing I’ve ever read.

Im too heavy to even cry about it, fuck.

mcarabooboo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking from start to finish. And such beautiful explanations about depression and trauma, not much solution offered but a real look into the harrowing thoughts and feelings that depression causes. Takes a few hundred pages to get into it but then you’re in it and just when you think it can’t get worse, it does.

awdrummer's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

mieuxloti's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0