Reviews

Pew by Catherine Lacey

lwrenable_91's review against another edition

mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? N/A

2.0

I understand what the author was trying to say through this book (I think) but it just wasn’t executed well. There was a lot of build up for the end and nothing happened 

ninsiana0's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Read PEW by Catherine Lacey if you love not knowing, uncertainty, slowly uncovering, hiding, sleeping, secrets, drawing pictures, confessions, festivals, expectations, nothing, no one, mirrors, undercurrents, divisions, churches, bodies, dissociating & silence.

lemon_drop's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

lfran13's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

2.5

chocorb's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

i think this town is founded on guilt. everyone is confessing the moment they get the chance. pew is jesus? ok. they all start confessing to them. i don’t think it’s even on purpose, they just need to let it out, because they think they have so many burdens that talking about it will make all their mistakes ok. this town, idk if it is omelas or based off it, but the mysterious town energy, the passive-aggressiveness in each of the characters, it’s all the same. they all think that as long as they let out all their sins on one person, collectively, it’ll be alright. that as long as they tell everyone what they’ve done, it won’t matter anymore. they’re all deluded people. it’s a town of hypocrites.

the ending was very ambiguous…annie and pew seem to be the ones who walk away from omelas and i think that’s it, because the last paragraphs infer how they don’t know where they are walking, if they’re walking anywhere, and if there’s anything beyond where they are heading towards. away from the town of tainted redemption.

cryingcowboy's review against another edition

5.0

What a terror a body must live through, Pew has easily made me so full of emotions. I will sit with this book for the rest of my life. Probably the religious trauma.

maggie_gaca's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

lucyisreading's review

challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

abkas98's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

salomlamouette's review against another edition

mysterious reflective

Une lecture très prenante et qui a une dimension malaisante voire effrayante avec cette communauté qui panique (disons-le franchement) à l’idée d’accueillir une personne qui ne leur ressemble pas, qui ne leur parle pas et qu’elle ne peut pas classer/déterminer. Beaucoup aimé la manière dont c’était fait et pensé !