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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Not a mystery in the traditional sense, reads more like a conversational memoir/bildungsroman by someone trying to figure out what the heck happened to them.
At one point in the book, a character named Tommy reflects that the people in charge at Hailsham always "timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly."
And I think it applies to the book too--that you're always given a piece of information just before you're ready to fully and properly understand what it means. I wish I could've gone into the book without knowing anything so I could truly have that experience, but I must've watched a booktube review of this book some time ago which put it on my TBR but also spoiled major plot points for me. It was a great read nonetheless.
At one point in the book, a character named Tommy reflects that the people in charge at Hailsham always "timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly."
And I think it applies to the book too--that you're always given a piece of information just before you're ready to fully and properly understand what it means. I wish I could've gone into the book without knowing anything so I could truly have that experience, but I must've watched a booktube review of this book some time ago which put it on my TBR but also spoiled major plot points for me. It was a great read nonetheless.
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
insane how highly i think of ishiguro and yet his books continue to disappoint me…to have a concept so chilling and eerie and just, water it down so that a tragic love triangle can take precedence over it?? oof.
World building>>. The angst of friendship >
The structure of this is like talking to my adhd friends
«It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body»
The structure of this is like talking to my adhd friends
«It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body»
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
