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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
J’aurais aimé plus d’informations sur le passé de Louise mais autrement le livre est très bien écrit pour provoquer petit à petit un malaise palpable et soit nous donner envie de dévorer les pages restantes pour en finir soit nous faire avancer à reculons tellement il devient compliqué de poursuivre la lecture en ressentant un début d’angoisse
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As much an admission of societal fractures as a thriller about the psychological reconstruction of a woman's narrative, Lullaby builds up a world of familial disarray and makes a spectacle of their consequences. The pieces are familiar: aspiring middle-class parents, lonely women alienated from society, children whose care is a matter of business. The attachments are obsessional:
She thinks that she could stare at them for hours without ever getting bored. That she would be content to watch them live, working the shadows so that everything was perfect, sot hat the mechanism never jammed. She has the intimate conviction now, the burning and painful conviction that her happiness belongs to them. That she is theirs and they are hers.And then there is the workshop-perfect opening sentences, so lurid that they serve as openings on the book's cover itself: "The baby is dead. It took only a matter of seconds." No matter that these sentences are 1) unsubstantiated by the text (there is little attention to Adam's death, in the end) and 2) a sensational statement in bad faith with the novel itself, which demonstrates that, no, the fantasy of individual action (wherein a death takes a matter of seconds) falsifies the long, lived process that builds and builds towards death in events and decisions and forces in and beyond a person's control. So, then: a thriller, but also a social disease, and the novel wants to have it both ways. Good luck!
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
This was an extremely easy book to rate, because I liked nothing about it. It is the story of Louisa who is the perfect nanny. The very first chapter lets you know that Louisa did something horrible to the children. That is it. The rest of the book tells the story of Louisa and her last nanny job. With the exception of the first chapter the entire book is so unbelievably boring. There is hardly any dialogue, just explanations. The author was smart to put the horribleness at the first chapter because that is the hook. You spend the entire book looking for clues or for "it" to happen. Unfortunately, that never happens. Instead you are just reading an extremely dull book. This is not a thriller, it will put you to sleep.
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Had the potential to be good but very bad not a good book
dark
emotional
reflective
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced