Reviews with content warning for Incest - Paradais

Este libro explora cómo las intersecciones de pobreza, falta de educación, violencia familiar, machismo, soledad y abandono/pérdida pueden generar un entorno donde las diferencias sociales y cultura afectan la autopercepción y oportunidades (reales o percibidas) disponibles, lo que puede ser una buena receta para criar personas que llegarían a diferentes extremos por escapar de esa realidad de cualquier forma.
Mientras que hay un fuerte énfasis en las circunstancias y entorno que llevan de alguna forma al protagonista por un camino oscuro, sí encontramos menciones de la responsabilidad personal que este está dispuesto a reconocer (o no) por sus acciones, lo que es un punto importante que agradezco no haya sido ignorado. Tal vez la sutileza con la que este punto es tratado se relaciona con la propia percepción del protagonista sobre la inmensidad de las circunstancias que lo empujan a ciertas acciones, en comparación con su agencia personal, que por su misma historia tendría sentido que perciba como casi inexistente.

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deborah_green's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-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

3.25

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ashmont27's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I found the ending a bit unsatisfying, but overall this was a deeply unsettling and fascinating read. Read it all in one day and didn't want to put it down.

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eepi's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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przidentvincent's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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hukkelberg's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

What a sad little thing. It's just mulch. Irritating, frustrating, upsetting mulch. It paints a picture, spends so many pages painting a huge glance at the holes and corners of the workings in this country. The way its written, the huge sentences, steeps the text in a false sense of urgency that tricks you into thinking something's going to happen and then it doesn't, it never does. But it makes its point. The voice is this way because Polo's life is this way and it convinces you, as it convinced him, that this endless rhythmic drudgery is all that ever will be. He's barely present in the end, in his own mind, and that had the unfortunate consequence of making me as detached as he willed himself to be so he could process it. I started it yesterday evening, around midnight, and finished it now, not without it putting me to sleep thrice. It's a serious book, deals in serious matters, but instead of bringing you in, it makes you into the unengaged spectator of an avalanche of tragedies that so overwhelmingly supersedes the scope of action of its protagonist there is no moment you are tempted to commune with whatever it's attempting to speak on. It's like watching the news form another room. But it's not bad, nor is it dumb. It's just sad and little.

EDIT: Bumping this up half a star, not because it's any better, but because I just had to work on a place just like the one described here and I understood intimately, immediately, the feelings of the main character.

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