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3.57 AVERAGE

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

that’s 2 for 2 for daisy johnson!!!!! creepy, beautiful, tense, rich, opaque….. she stuffs so many descriptors into one book. i guess i could the all clinical about it - i love the fascination with language and she writes fascinating mothers etc etc - but more importantly i finished the last 3/4 in one night bc i couldn’t put it down. i JUST spent a year telling everyone who would and wouldn’t listen to read sisters, don’t make me do it again!!

not her fault but i wish i hadn’t known about the myth source going in bc i would have gotten it fine but wouldn’t have felt like i was waiting for something to happen so much.

I’d always understood that the past did not die just because we wanted it to. The past signed to us: clicks and cracks in the night, misspelled words, the jargon of adverts, the bodies that attracted us or did not, the sounds that reminded us of this or that. The past was not a thread trailing behind us but an anchor.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings
dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

love this my brain going whrrrrr
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

Ich finde es sehr schwierig, dieses Buch zu rezensieren, das mich einerseits fasziniert, andererseits aber auch enorm gefrustet hat.

"Everything Under" soll in erster Linie eine Neuerzählung der Ödipusgeschichte sein, verwebt aber deutlich mehr Mythen und Märchen und steckt voller Andeutungen.

Allem liegt die Frage zugrunde: Warum hat Sarah ihre Tochter im Alter von 16 Jahren verlassen?

Diesem Geheimnis geht Gretel auf die Spur, als sie versucht, ihre Mutter zu finden. Dabei lernen wir jede Menge weitere Charaktere kennen, die nie einfach einzuordnen sind.
Alle Figuren in diesem Buch sind vielschichtig, undurchschaubar und tragen mehr zur Verwirrung als zur Auflösung des Rätsels bei.

Daisy Johnson hat ohne Frage einen sehr atmosphärischen Roman entworfen, der viele Fragen aufwirft, der zum Nachdenken anregt, mit Symbolik experimentiert und durchaus gut unerhält.
Allerdings habe ich immer und immer wieder den roten Faden verloren, habe Figuren verwechselt, da ihre Story nicht immer klar gekennzeichnet ist und mich im Dickicht der Erzählstränge verloren.

Auch dies ist ein Buch, dem ich irgendwann wohl eine zweite Chance geben werde, das mich aber momentan etwas überfordert.

This was a chore to finish and I'm not sure why. I was immune to the enchantments that Johnson was very clearly trying to cast.
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional mysterious sad 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

Expand filter menu Content Warnings
dark mysterious 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