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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Mixed feelings on this - it did grip me for the first 200 pages or so, but I found myself getting a bit impatient with it as I got into the last 150. I found the constant vague hinting grating after a while. The writing was pretty good, but I found the ending a bit anticlimactic, and the resolution of the survivors & writer’s story a bit hamfisted. 2 stars feels a bit harsh but I didn’t like this as much as I like most books I give 3 stars.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Haunting and atmospheric. I really felt pulled in to the lives of the lighthouse keepers and their families, the wives who shared their husbands with the Maiden rock lighthouse, the complexities and sordidness that the keepers tried to keep at bay from their simple immaculately clean lighthouse lives. And always there, inescapable, in the background yet dictating every move, the sea.
Stock whodunnit really but the lighthouse setting makes for added intrigue and the insight into life of lighthouse keepers in the 1970s was welcome
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I can't say I enjoyed this. It wasn't bad by any stretch, a bit slow maybe? But I should have read the content warnings.
{C'est quand le soleil se lève que je pense le plus à toi. L'instant qui précède, une ou deux minutes avant, lorsque bâille la nuit à l'arrivée du matin et que la mer commence à se séparer du ciel.}
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
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:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A story steeped in detached sadness, an exploration of how loneliness fills people up and drowns their thoughts, differently, depending on what they think they deserve. And written with such casually beautiful phrases of imagery: the "wilted bodies" of strewn socks, shadows as the "fingertips of trees reaching through the curtains." (I'm not convinced every character would have such a lyrical or sometimes-poetic internal voice but I forgive this for the pure pleasure it was to read.)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape
Adorei a escrita da autora!! Uau!!
Que viagem neste mar com estes homens e estas mulheres... Todo o mistério envolvente do início ao fim! Muito bom!
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Que viagem neste mar com estes homens e estas mulheres... Todo o mistério envolvente do início ao fim! Muito bom!
Se gostarem de audiobooks aconselho a ouvir!