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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Such a unique concept, I've never read anything like this!! I loved the beginning with the hotel I wish we got to stay there a little longer.
The wasteland drifting was also lovely to experience, along with insightful, succint narration, interspersed with some stream of consciousness.
The wasteland drifting was also lovely to experience, along with insightful, succint narration, interspersed with some stream of consciousness.
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
We hold things in our bodies. The earth holds things in its body. In clay. In ice. The real. The unreal. Time. Each other. All the chances we had.
If they cut me into little parts and bury me in separate holes, will that be that? Will I still think of you? Will my loss be multiplied or divided?
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
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:
Complicated
what... was... that...?
I was very much excited to read this novel and to say that it let me down is... quite an understatement. Seeing the positive reviews on this, saying how it poetically and eloquently describe grief, made me want to get into this novel even more, but I guess this book is not for everyone—and it certainly is not for me. I am not really a fan of 'zombie' or 'apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic' stories but I figured then that this book would somehow be a good start in exploring the genre. However, this only made me not want to dive into the genre (though there are still some parts of me that urges me to explore more, maybe my view will change).
At first, I thought that I wasn't smart enough to understand what was happening in the story, that it's too abstract, ambiguous, and vague for my level of comprehension, but it wasn't because of that at all. This novel tried so hard to be metaphorical and symbolic to the point that it lost its true sense and direction. It does have quotable quotes though, I'll give it a star for that. Here are some of it:
I was very much excited to read this novel and to say that it let me down is... quite an understatement. Seeing the positive reviews on this, saying how it poetically and eloquently describe grief, made me want to get into this novel even more, but I guess this book is not for everyone—and it certainly is not for me. I am not really a fan of 'zombie' or 'apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic' stories but I figured then that this book would somehow be a good start in exploring the genre. However, this only made me not want to dive into the genre (though there are still some parts of me that urges me to explore more, maybe my view will change).
At first, I thought that I wasn't smart enough to understand what was happening in the story, that it's too abstract, ambiguous, and vague for my level of comprehension, but it wasn't because of that at all. This novel tried so hard to be metaphorical and symbolic to the point that it lost its true sense and direction. It does have quotable quotes though, I'll give it a star for that. Here are some of it:
Maybe Mitchem is right about beauty. He says it persists because it was one of the few real things. Beauty. Dreams. Boredom. Hunger. More than anything, hunger.
This sadness is not an empty church and not an empty house. It is the whole world and I am in it and it is in me.
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
A pretty excellent novela about grief and transitionary phases. I got scared at one point that something heterosexual was going to happen because the narrator mentioned they had tried for a baby, but it ended up ok in the end.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character