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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert es uno de esos thrillers que no solo te atrapan, sino que te hacen sospechar de todos en algún momento. Con una estructura ágil que alterna tiempos y perspectivas, Joel Dicker construye una atmósfera que mezcla misterio y crítica social.
Me encantó cómo, a pesar de todos mis intentos por adivinar el culpable, el plot twist final me dejó sin palabras. Es un libro que juega con tus certezas, desmonta tus teorías y te obliga a reconsiderar todo lo que creías saber.
La relación entre escritor y obra también me pareció un hilo narrativo muy interesante, lleno de reflexiones sobre la creación literaria y la verdad detrás de las historias.
En definitiva: un thriller inteligente, entretenido y sorprendente, que recomiendo especialmente a quienes disfrutan de finales que dejan huella.
Me encantó cómo, a pesar de todos mis intentos por adivinar el culpable, el plot twist final me dejó sin palabras. Es un libro que juega con tus certezas, desmonta tus teorías y te obliga a reconsiderar todo lo que creías saber.
La relación entre escritor y obra también me pareció un hilo narrativo muy interesante, lleno de reflexiones sobre la creación literaria y la verdad detrás de las historias.
En definitiva: un thriller inteligente, entretenido y sorprendente, que recomiendo especialmente a quienes disfrutan de finales que dejan huella.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
After reading more than 600 pages I don't have the strength for a proper review. A list will have to do.
The good:
- The protagonist's mother is a prejudiced and melodramatic emotional manipulator while his editor is a profit hunter without remorse nor respect. They're both abject and delightfully entertaining.
- Would be authors can identify with parts of the story and might glean some useful (albeit basic) tips here and there.
- The book is an easy read and the perfect beach companion for those who want to shut down their brain during holidays.
- One good twist I didn't see coming ().
- The format is interesting: a book in a book, which is actually the book we're currently reading. Each chapter starts with a piece of advice about writing once given to the protagonist, then said advice is applied to the writing of the chapter itself or illustrated through the events taking places.
- I could hear Tamara Quinn talk when reading her lines. I have known people who talk exactly like her.
- The verbal jousting between the policeman in charge of the investigation and the protagonist created a comfortable and comforting constant.
The bad:
- The prose is either plain or tries to be dramatic but falls flat.
- The book would benefit from a good pruning.
- The final answer to the "who dunnit?" question is disappointing and a surprisingly short amount of time is spent explaining it. Here's a writing piece of advice that was forgotten: if you set readers' expectations, you must fulfil them!
- Too many plot twists and extraordinary coincidences emerge one after the other, hurting the story's plausibility.
- Harry Québert's book and love letters are supposed to be incredibly romantic literary masterpieces of which each word is wonderful but... when extracts are presented, the prose is as mundane as the rest of the novel. At some point the author reveals to us a snippet of a character's journal (one of those vulgar and uneducated characters I talk about hereunder) and I found it infinitely more touching.
- Two mistakes in the French version ("les grosses légumes" instead of "les gros légumes" and "vous en seur" instead of "vous êtes en sueur").
The ugly:
- Instalove.
- The instalove interest speaks as if she was playing in a bad high school play and her personality is dangerously close to "codependent manic pixie dream girl".
- The instalove interest is a 15-year-old girl but is described as looking older because she is well-endowed and is referred to as a "woman" throughout the book. This, on top of the fact that characters presented as rational and educated claim that her relationship with a man more than twice her age is "more complicated than that" and "but it was true love" while vulgar and uneducated characters denounce that relationship and give it the name it deverves, could give the impression that there's a subtle defense of ephebophilia hidden in the book.
The good:
- The protagonist's mother is a prejudiced and melodramatic emotional manipulator while his editor is a profit hunter without remorse nor respect. They're both abject and delightfully entertaining.
- Would be authors can identify with parts of the story and might glean some useful (albeit basic) tips here and there.
- The book is an easy read and the perfect beach companion for those who want to shut down their brain during holidays.
- One good twist I didn't see coming (
Spoiler
Harry Québert actually didn't write the book "Les Origines du Mal".- The format is interesting: a book in a book, which is actually the book we're currently reading. Each chapter starts with a piece of advice about writing once given to the protagonist, then said advice is applied to the writing of the chapter itself or illustrated through the events taking places.
- I could hear Tamara Quinn talk when reading her lines. I have known people who talk exactly like her.
- The verbal jousting between the policeman in charge of the investigation and the protagonist created a comfortable and comforting constant.
The bad:
- The prose is either plain or tries to be dramatic but falls flat.
- The book would benefit from a good pruning.
- The final answer to the "who dunnit?" question is disappointing and a surprisingly short amount of time is spent explaining it. Here's a writing piece of advice that was forgotten: if you set readers' expectations, you must fulfil them!
- Too many plot twists and extraordinary coincidences emerge one after the other, hurting the story's plausibility.
- Harry Québert's book and love letters are supposed to be incredibly romantic literary masterpieces of which each word is wonderful but... when extracts are presented, the prose is as mundane as the rest of the novel. At some point the author reveals to us a snippet of a character's journal (one of those vulgar and uneducated characters I talk about hereunder) and I found it infinitely more touching.
- Two mistakes in the French version ("les grosses légumes" instead of "les gros légumes" and "vous en seur" instead of "vous êtes en sueur").
The ugly:
- Instalove.
- The instalove interest speaks as if she was playing in a bad high school play and her personality is dangerously close to "codependent manic pixie dream girl".
- The instalove interest is a 15-year-old girl but is described as looking older because she is well-endowed and is referred to as a "woman" throughout the book. This, on top of the fact that characters presented as rational and educated claim that her relationship with a man more than twice her age is "more complicated than that" and "but it was true love" while vulgar and uneducated characters denounce that relationship and give it the name it deverves, could give the impression that there's a subtle defense of ephebophilia hidden in the book.
Muy malo. Los personajes son caricaturas. No entiendo como el autor pretende que comprendamos al pedofilo de Harry.
Me parece increible que este libro se haya publicado.
Me parece increible que este libro se haya publicado.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Can we just all agree that love between a 15 year old and 30 year old does not exist. Thats called rape and cannot be consentual. If we look past that fact its an okay book, with some pretty massive plot holes. It is entertaining though.
35-year-olds do not "have affairs" with 15-year-olds, they commit statutory rape.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes