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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is well-written, well-thought out, entertaining. It has really funny moments, and really heartbreaking moments. It's mystery is intriguing and well-developed.
It was overly drawn out in places and could have used a little trimming down, but I didn't mind too much, it was still fun.
It was overly drawn out in places and could have used a little trimming down, but I didn't mind too much, it was still fun.
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-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
An incredible fantasy that is imaginative and exciting. The Victorian Dickensian character development is a familiar style for a backdrop to modern themes such as social status and racial equality. What a sublime ending. HIGHLY recommend the audio version--it makes for a much more linear narrative (reading the footnotes felt like work to me).
I don’t know exactly how to feel about this book. I by no means disliked the experience of reading it but I also don’t think that I wholly enjoyed it either - more than anything, I finished it out of a sense of intrigue and a certainty that the payoff in doing so would be worth it. This book is dense and meandering, which more often than not made it a chore to read, but it is also a wildly impressive feat of English literature and unbelievable for an author’s debut. Overall, I think that my feelings of relative indifference are largely my own doing, as I read this book at a very slow pace over quite a number of weeks, and as such often found myself unable to remember its earlier events and feeling like I was flying blind. Ultimately, while my indifference would usually lend itself to a 3 star review, I am giving this book 4 stars because it is just so damn impressive.
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
slow-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
Magical story...it feels like this story could have happened in real life.
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved Piranesi and my husband has been asking me to read this book for over a decade. It took me forever to get into it (I was off put by the footnotes and the whole early-19th-centuryness of it all) but it really did start to click around page 300 or so.