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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
In today’s current political climate, the novel often reads as a bleak prophecy of what is to come in the West’s slow slide to the right.
It took me a long time to read as I knew there was only pain and suffering on each page. Lynch’s writing style only adds to the endless horror, and though at times it was challenging to literally read, the prose rewards the reader time and time again. Another reader described it like reading a nightmare, which I can only agree with.
I believe the novel also serves to offer a glimpse, though for the privileged it may be, of the harrowing nature of fleeing war and the unending plight of refugees - a conversation which deserves light and empathy, especially within the political conversations taking place in the UK and Ireland.
I would recommend to read, but also don’t know if I would ever read it again.
It took me a long time to read as I knew there was only pain and suffering on each page. Lynch’s writing style only adds to the endless horror, and though at times it was challenging to literally read, the prose rewards the reader time and time again. Another reader described it like reading a nightmare, which I can only agree with.
I believe the novel also serves to offer a glimpse, though for the privileged it may be, of the harrowing nature of fleeing war and the unending plight of refugees - a conversation which deserves light and empathy, especially within the political conversations taking place in the UK and Ireland.
I would recommend to read, but also don’t know if I would ever read it again.
powerful and affecting and timely and incredibly well written
adventurous
dark
reflective
sad
medium-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:
No
challenging
dark
emotional
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:
No
Brilliantly written. Beautiful and devastating to read. Lands a little too close to home right now with the rise of the authoritarian rule in this country. But I strongly recommend.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Jesus fucking Christ.
The way this book plays with reality, absurdism and madness completely hypnotised me. I feel like I’ve been caught in this book’s headlights. I could not look away. I finished reading this in a fugue state.
Also, scarier than any horror book I’ve read, by orders of magnitude. Because I look around, I follow the news, I listen to what people are saying, and all of a sudden this book reads like a non fiction. The feelings of dread and disbelief and despair that this book activates within me are already there.
Necessary, urgent, terrifying, beautiful. I think this is one that will stay with me.
The way this book plays with reality, absurdism and madness completely hypnotised me. I feel like I’ve been caught in this book’s headlights. I could not look away. I finished reading this in a fugue state.
Also, scarier than any horror book I’ve read, by orders of magnitude. Because I look around, I follow the news, I listen to what people are saying, and all of a sudden this book reads like a non fiction. The feelings of dread and disbelief and despair that this book activates within me are already there.
Necessary, urgent, terrifying, beautiful. I think this is one that will stay with me.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-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:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated