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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoyed this but am giving it four stars bc I think it could have been 20-30 pages shorter. It already was short, but about 3/4 through I realized I just wanted the book to be done. I wanted the twist to come that we were expecting and to see how it played out. That being said, I loved the intimacy of this - it really felt like we were just moving through the story as Natalie, and I liked that there wasn't extra commentary beyond that. I liked the somewhat poetic / flowery language of Natalie's thoughts juxtaposed with her fear of sharing poetry and thinking of herself as a poet. I also felt like it was realistic to 18 year old girlhood. There was a lack of sense of self / personality, which I see some other reviews criticizing, but that felt like the most realistic part to me.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I have read few sapphic novels but I think this is one of the best ones I've read. The Adult tackles the passionate love affair between Natalie, a college student, and Nora, an older woman. For someone who grew up in a somewhat sheltered home in the forest, Natalie maneuvered Toronto's bustling city life finding the ins and outs of being "a someone" especially in the literary community. And then she met, Nora, the woman who showed her the realities of life about thriving, love, and relationships. I enjoyed Natalie's streams of consciousness especially on her love affair with Nora, and her sexual explorations as a lesbian. The writing was subtle yet gripping. The novel touched on Mary Oliver's writing and poetry which was a big plus for me.
unbelievably beautiful with such an earnest narrator! it’s a simple concept but it’s executed near-flawlessly, i don’t even care that i guessed a twist very early on. and the prose!!! what a debut, wow!
It was meh. Like yay lesbian coming of age story but also it was just so predictable and one dimensional. I had a really hard time visualizing any of the book
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-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
the writing was pretty good and i'm looking forward to read it again. the dynamic natalie has with this older woman is just insane, and the narrator voice was oftentimes so irritating, but because it was so accurately an eighteen years old girl looking everywhere for approval and finding in a place that i knew couldn't be good for her, i knew.
i'm happy with the way everything turned out. the descriptions are great, fischer has a,,,, i don't know if melancholic is the word, but she has a way with words that i really enjoyed. i read this one pretty fast because i needed to know what would happen with natalie
i'm happy with the way everything turned out. the descriptions are great, fischer has a,,,, i don't know if melancholic is the word, but she has a way with words that i really enjoyed. i read this one pretty fast because i needed to know what would happen with natalie
challenging
emotional
inspiring
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:
Yes
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 stars - i love a coming of age novel that isn't fantasy driven. i even more so love queer ones that aren't high school focused. now, while i love these things, i found the way this is written in an almost prose, scattered way not to be to my liking. i can picture people enjoying it (sally rooney similarities to me), but i think that took a lot away from me. the characters didn't have much development and were hardly lovable (which is big when it's so character driven). i was rooting for the main character to figure herself out; truthfully, i didn't care much about her. i wanted to know more about natalie, but i didn't feel like i got that which took away some connectedness. all in all, it was still a great, newer queer book, i was just not impressed with the writing and characters.
3.5 rounded up because I am a softie, always.
at first I thought oh god the anxious scrambled eggs brain of a young person in college .. and it went on and I appreciated it for drawing out really well this sort of pseudo-adult constant confusion and need for reassurance and overthinking. the gross leaps of logic and obsession in infatuation felt sickening but v true.
at first I thought oh god the anxious scrambled eggs brain of a young person in college .. and it went on and I appreciated it for drawing out really well this sort of pseudo-adult constant confusion and need for reassurance and overthinking. the gross leaps of logic and obsession in infatuation felt sickening but v true.