Reviews - The Lincoln Highway

6.11k reviews for:

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

4.13 AVERAGE

qog's review

4.5

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

katiebryant's review against another edition

5.0

Highly recommend!!!!! What a delightful journey with fascinating and unique characters.
Just re-read it!!! Something I rarely do, but this one is worth a second read.

lulu2379's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

diatomdoc's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

iphigenia_in_aulis's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous inspiring

oceantombs's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging funny mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I love Amor Towles books and this one I truly think was amazing!!

Mayberry I’m being too nit picky, but having my favorite character who I thought was good…purposely overdosed and his companion tried to just casually keep getting his money.. I will say I loved how sally made her self comfortable and tried to get everyone to see her point of view and doesn’t fit the traditional. I like in the end what the brothers decided to do was make the troublemaker who kept leaving them stranded, I wasn’t a fan of him losing money and him Willing to die for it!!

Content Warnings

ctonkie_97's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

sleblanc912's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I read a Gentleman in Moscow last year and while I generally enjoyed it, it was definitely a character study rather than having a real plot, and that’s not really my cup of tea. The Lincoln Highway has a great mix of well written characters and a well done plot. Duchess was my personal fave.

I think Towles is also great at making clever points while keeping the writing digestible - ie Sally explaining her preserves jar because “kindness begins where necessity ends” or the professors description of the hero’s journey and a diamond on its side.

I also liked the heavy use of Americana imagery and theming, maybe Lana del Rey would enjoy this? Also justice for “Dennis” lowkey, but maybe that’s when you get when you marry into an old money family

amydobrzynski's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional reflective medium-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

triestina85's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

An excellent book whose characters will stay with me for a long time.

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