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The End of Loneliness by Benedict Wells

7 reviews

drawahardline's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad

Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Ich habe den Stil und die Emotionen geliebt, aber die Frauen waren sehr eindimensional geschrieben und meist nur im Kontext von Beziehungen zu Männern oder Sex oder Muttersein. Würde es trotzdem empfehlen:)

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

It’s hard to put into words what I felt while reading this book.

First the writing is so compelling and charged, it’s as if by the way it’s written you immediately know where you’re getting yourself into. That can also be because of how it starts “I’ve known Death a long time, but now Death knows me.” So, yes, this is a book about death, the tragedy of it, and its consequences on those left behind, but because it is about death it is also very much so about life.

A life that seems ordinary and happy and then is wounded and broken for three young siblings after their parents death. A life unchosen, for Jules particularly, who daydreams different worlds where his parents haven’t died and his relationship with his elder brother and sister is unchanged. In the real world however, he is lost, fragile, not the boy he was before, and his siblings too have escaped him, until he meets Ava at the boarding school he is sent to, and the real world becomes ever so slightly more appealing.

Life doesn’t stagnate, doesn’t concede, is not a zero sum game, the choices and tragedies are real, life and death are always intertwined, and fortunately or unfortunately it is the nature of it.

This is a brilliant family saga filled with tragedy, but also love, new chances, adventures, beginning and ends.

Yes, I loved it. But, I also hated it because I have not come to terms with death, and I can’t rationally nod at the rational conclusions of life and death, although logically not only do I want to, I need to, I must.

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