Reviews - The Days of Abandonment

2.87k reviews for:

The Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante

3.91 AVERAGE

ashleyhosmer's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

losthighway's review against another edition

2.75

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jacintaduncan's review against another edition

5.0

Masterpiece. I’ve never gotten so worked up, seething with rage doesn’t even cover it. The slow descent into madness then further to emptiness… Elena Ferrante is one of this most powerful writers I’ve ever come across.

Maybe one day I’ll have the words to describe what I felt reading this but for now all I’ll say is all men should die.

gseroza's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark reflective

ferdavilareads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional 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: Complicated

lizetteratura's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this was such a wild ride, initially i loved it for its raw and emotional portrays of a woman being abandoned by her cheating husband, but at some point the feelings cause by abandonment such as loneliness, anger, isolation, mania, obsession, quickly turned into a horror story, i still really liked it but found the later development of the story line unnecessarily distorted and excessive, also imo the ending doesn't seem to fit or do justice to either the plot or the characters...