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Las caras

Tove Ditlevsen

3.96 AVERAGE

challenging dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Good book, I alway like stories about women going supposedly insane but you catch - quite early on- that the narrator is unreliable and indeed insane. The name of the illness is never mentioned but I suspect schizophrenia? Unfortunately, I couldn’t link with the deeper meaning of the changing faces except with the example of growing older and with new found values, changing faces.
However, the book was disappointingly underwhelming.
dark reflective sad tense fast-paced
dark reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging 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: Yes

So many similes, but most of them are really fresh and interesting.
I love the surreal surroundings and how the border between reality and insanity where blurred.

fell in and out of this. was v intense and stressed me out which were more of the good parts. fan of tove's writing style as well.
challenging dark emotional medium-paced
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Een grimmige sfeer en een pijnlijk verhaal dichterlijk verwoord. Aangrijpend en meeslepend. Zeer dicht aanleunend bij de realiteit van een psychose, alsof het geen fictie is.
challenging emotional fast-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: Yes