Reviews - The Emperor of Gladness

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The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong

4.26 AVERAGE

rhysdb's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

vanakin_skywalker's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kaiguerrero's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

undercoverreads's review against another edition

3.0

This book held so much promise and I was hoping to love it. What drew me was the writing which is so beautiful. However, I need more than beautiful writing to sustain my interest for 400 pages. Sadly, I found the book to be going nowhere and it was a very close DNF for me. I persevered until the very last page in the hope that it would “redeem itself” and SOMEthing would happen. Sadly this was not the case. I found the book to be very repetitive and the ending was flat and disappointing. I got the impression that writing this book was like therapy for the author, reliving a special relationship. The only reason why I rated this book, rather begrudgingly I must add, 3 stars is because the writing is beautiful.