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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
"'They looked like two children,' she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything."
A lesson in the art of keeping us hooked - the narration and pacing twisted in ways I don't think I've ever seen before. It was beautiful in its own strange ways and brought up questions I'll still be thinking over for a long time
A lesson in the art of keeping us hooked - the narration and pacing twisted in ways I don't think I've ever seen before. It was beautiful in its own strange ways and brought up questions I'll still be thinking over for a long time
"He carried his terrified wife off to his dream house, where the widower Xius had been happy."
7-7,25/10
Me da la sensación de que este hombre podría escribir las páginas amarillas o el teletexto, y lo haría de forma tan bonita, que querrías leerlos.
No le doy más nota porque la historia no deja de ser lineal, plana y sin sorpresas (qué narices, si el propio título/primera página ya es un spoiler!), pero aún así, se me ha hecho muy disfrutable, y aunque te han estado preparando durante 100 páginas, es capaz de dejarte con mal cuerpo en la última.
En fin, que más que una novela, parece un ejercicio de buena escritura, pero, ¿Quién soy yo para quejarme?
Me da la sensación de que este hombre podría escribir las páginas amarillas o el teletexto, y lo haría de forma tan bonita, que querrías leerlos.
No le doy más nota porque la historia no deja de ser lineal, plana y sin sorpresas (qué narices, si el propio título/primera página ya es un spoiler!), pero aún así, se me ha hecho muy disfrutable, y aunque te han estado preparando durante 100 páginas, es capaz de dejarte con mal cuerpo en la última.
En fin, que más que una novela, parece un ejercicio de buena escritura, pero, ¿Quién soy yo para quejarme?
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder
Moderate: Misogyny
“Most of all, he never thought it legitimate that life should make use of so many coincidences forbidden literature, so that there should be the untrammelled fulfilment of a death so clearly foretold.”
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
fascinating read, probably one i'll need to reread to get into every nook and cranny this novella offers.
In translation, at least, the use of the English language and metaphor is beautiful. The story is almost inconsequential to the ways in which imagery is used to succinctly tell the intriguing tale.