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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
This could have been cool, even “the best Twilight Zone episode you never saw” as Stephen King blurbed, but instead it was mostly about men lusting after teenage girls and no one talking about their feelings or dealing with grief.
I heard a lot of buzz around this book when it first came out. I thought the topic was very interesting, but didn't really find that you got enough in depth feeling for any of the characters. I did, however, like the story and think it ended well.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Good writing but I felt like nothing happened. I spent the majority of the book waiting for more. More of anything. A lot of the interesting parts were told in passing.
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-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
WE ARE LIVING REMINDERS
I couldn't finish the book, I only made it about 200 pages in it was painfully ridiculous to me. I feel bad about giving up on it but with so many books in the world it's very difficult to read something that just doesn't appeal to me. I feel as if I was tricked I thought the book was going to be on the rapture and it wasn't. It had a bizarre twist on it and it just struck a nerve with me. Maybe someone else will like this but honestly the more I read the more I disliked it.
Enjoyed this more than the show. Much more pathos, puch less genre plotting. Listening to an interview with the author after I finished where he talked about how it was sort of about aging and how people just disappear from your life and you have to deal with that inexplicable loss.
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Good read, finishes quite abruptly, but satisfying by this books standard
fast-paced
This could have used a stronger editor. I feel like a few characters could have been lifted completely out (Tom, Nora, Aimee) to further expand some of the other plotlines. Or give Tom a bigger and more interesting role because his could have been arguably the most interesting part of the story but it was just lackluster and there wasn't enough time dedicated to it to make me care.