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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very well written characters, but just like in Brooklyn, the book ends abruptly as if the last 20% is missing
fast-paced
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
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
Long Island is a beautiful, aching love story. Colm Tobin creates complicated and flawed characters who are unbelievably human. You spend the book longing for the characters to magically be less human, less complicated, and to live happily ever after. Colm Tobin is too masterful for happy ever after. You end up with real characters making decisions that are both relatable and regrettable. Beautifully constructed and written.
I didn’t like that you knew where this story was heading about halfway through. we were heading directly towards heartbreak and it made it hard to read
I did not like how passive the characters were. Although we got an insight into their mindset they never seemed to give any attention to how they’d hurt those around them.
I liked the side characters a lot and wouldn’t mind learning more about them if such a book were to exist.
I did not like how passive the characters were. Although we got an insight into their mindset they never seemed to give any attention to how they’d hurt those around them.
I liked the side characters a lot and wouldn’t mind learning more about them if such a book were to exist.
emotional
hopeful
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
book about yearning but you will never satisfy the yearn
lighthearted
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
After over 20 years, Eilis comes home to Ireland. Enniscorthy has hardly changed yet the lives of all those Eilis left behind have changed greatly in the two decades since she was last there.
We are introduced to a host of new characters including Eilis’s son and daughter while you also get to see how the lives of the people of Enniscorthy have changed since she emigrated from Ireland in the 1950s. Eilis’s return is met with everything from open arms to open hostility showing a great amount of character growth from the characters introduced in Brooklyn.
Themes of second chances, heartbreak and homecoming are prevalent throughout the novel and how consequences from specific actions ripple across the entire community. I found Brooklyn to be an novel about America, while Long Island is very much a novel about what life was like in a rural Irish village and how, even though a place may stay the same on the surface, the feeling of home centres around the people who are there.
A heartfelt, sad and realistic sequel focusing on the trials and tribulations of life, love and loneliness.
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes