Reviews - Thérèse Raquin

807 reviews for:

Thérèse Raquin

Émile Zola

3.63 AVERAGE

paraplybot's review against another edition

2.25

sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

En insest relation mellan kusiner som växt upp tillsammans som syskon.(bara fel).
Therese gillar verkligen inte situationen (fattar henne), men hon bara sitter och hatar på allt och alla.
Snubben gör typ allt som sin mamma vill och Therese vill bara ha nått annat. Men de gifter sig.

En dag träffar snubben sin gamla barndomsvän och bjuder in honom på domino. Får en direkt conection. Dem till sammans bryter dem. (Så jävla explicit scener, känns lite fel för en skol bok).

De bestämmelser sig för att mörda första snubben för att dem ska kunna bli ett par.
Men detta funkar totalt i motsats, hela relationen och conectionen försvinner.

De inser att de inte är bra att döda så dem vill döda varandra. Men tar istället självmord, tillsammans

karolinakriauzaite's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book is a very good example of a realist book, typically naturalism I’d say. Generally speaking the book’s content is interesting but it’s protracted around the middle. The ending was worth it tho in my opinion and was very unexpected. Quite a sad book if you’re sensitive to love and guilt.

Content Warnings

velicselma9's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nighm's review against another edition

3.0

The criticism that comes to mind immediately as I finished: it could have ended at any time. Most of the book is little more than a downward spiral, and there’s no reason the bottom couldn’t have been reached sooner. It is certainly horror and one wonders if Zola has read Edgar Allen Poe. The novel depicts in a horrifying manner the worst possible effects of sin, and yet there is not enough goodness in the book to make it as awful as it should be, so that one is merely relieved, though not entirely satisfied, when the end comes.

whatmeganreads's review against another edition

3.25

Engaging story about betrayal, passion, lust, and horror....and ultimately a gripping tale of psychological unwinding. I first heard of this book when i daw a friend recommend the Elizabeth Olson film In Secret, which was based on Thérèse Raquin. I wanted to give the book a read first - now on to watch the movie!

whoeveriam's review against another edition

2.0

Not my cup of tea, no. I'm wary of classics to begin with, and while a part in the middle was interesting (hence my 2 instead of 1), I can't look past how utterly boring it was for the most of the time. Besides, it hasn't aged very well.