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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I gave this five because it REALLY made me think.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-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
The tension slowly builds as the stakes increase with each passing page. YOU find yourself wanting to scream at the main character to run whilst simultaneously understanding why she hasn't.
It shows you how totalitarianism can take hold. You find yourself making comparisons to Ukraine, Poland and current goings on in the US. You can see how society can sleep walk into it. Whilst it also being so blindingly obvious that it is happening. But how do you stop it?
It's harrowing to sit and think about the what-ifs. It's heartbreaking and thought provoking to read.
This is such an atmospheric book.
It shows you how totalitarianism can take hold. You find yourself making comparisons to Ukraine, Poland and current goings on in the US. You can see how society can sleep walk into it. Whilst it also being so blindingly obvious that it is happening. But how do you stop it?
It's harrowing to sit and think about the what-ifs. It's heartbreaking and thought provoking to read.
This is such an atmospheric book.
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
”The world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event.”
This is a beautiful book. The beginning was slow and I couldn't get past the first two chapters, then starting from the third, it got so much better and that's when I started to binge read.
Don't get me wrong, I felt for the main character, Eilish since the start, but seeing the monstrosity from her eyes as the story proceeds and seeing how much she tried: it's moving.
“It comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house...”
I felt part of the story. I rooted for the Stalk family with all of me. I felt the pain, the struggle, the grief, the feeling of helplessness, the fear and even the physical cold.
Each chapter just got better, culminating in the final three, which were excellent. The words hurt like knives. The final chapters, particularly, put things into perspective. This book makes you understand what really matters and that we should be grateful that we're safe and sound, with a roof on our heads and food on our tables. All things we take for granted.
“...And becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that had passed into folklore.”
The story in the book, although fictional, is the reality of millions of people everywhere in the world. The displacement, the pain, the loss.
This book should be taken as a wake up call. Not only to develop empathy towards the innocents suffering, but to open our eyes because if it happened in a modern day Republic of Ireland, it could happen anywhere.
Please, never let them take away democracy from you.
This is a beautiful book. The beginning was slow and I couldn't get past the first two chapters, then starting from the third, it got so much better and that's when I started to binge read.
Don't get me wrong, I felt for the main character, Eilish since the start, but seeing the monstrosity from her eyes as the story proceeds and seeing how much she tried: it's moving.
“It comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house...”
I felt part of the story. I rooted for the Stalk family with all of me. I felt the pain, the struggle, the grief, the feeling of helplessness, the fear and even the physical cold.
Each chapter just got better, culminating in the final three, which were excellent. The words hurt like knives. The final chapters, particularly, put things into perspective. This book makes you understand what really matters and that we should be grateful that we're safe and sound, with a roof on our heads and food on our tables. All things we take for granted.
“...And becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that had passed into folklore.”
The story in the book, although fictional, is the reality of millions of people everywhere in the world. The displacement, the pain, the loss.
This book should be taken as a wake up call. Not only to develop empathy towards the innocents suffering, but to open our eyes because if it happened in a modern day Republic of Ireland, it could happen anywhere.
Please, never let them take away democracy from you.
It felt like I was reading a book that showed our future.