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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
All of Irish history in one family’s devastating and destructive story.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-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
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
the drama unfolds too late in few pages.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-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
The Black Snow is the bleak tale of Barnabas Kane, a stubborn man who is willing to risk everything to overcome a tragic event rather than suffer a modicum of embarrassment. He learns what it means to be part of a community, and how negative the effects can be when one acts against the norms and traditions of said community. Much of the conflict of the novel comes from the friction of him feeling like a "local stranger" to his neighbors and struggling to receive help from them. This leads him down an obsessive, almost paranoid rabbit hole and his entire life begins to fall apart. I had a hard time putting the book down in the last third, when everything starts rapidly snowballing and unraveling.
I'm a big fan of Lynch's writing style in this; it takes a pastoral novel set in the countryside with a hyper-literary style and imbues it with a rough strangeness that gives the proceedings a lot of texture and character. He does a good job describing the landscape in ways which seem to reflect the individuals living in them, equally savage and tender.
I'm a big fan of Lynch's writing style in this; it takes a pastoral novel set in the countryside with a hyper-literary style and imbues it with a rough strangeness that gives the proceedings a lot of texture and character. He does a good job describing the landscape in ways which seem to reflect the individuals living in them, equally savage and tender.
How many times can one man "knuckle his jaw"? Read The Black Snow to find out!
challenging
dark
tense
slow-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:
Yes
dark
sad
slow-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