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3.23 AVERAGE
3.23 AVERAGE
The most depressing thing I've read since Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life.
On the cover of this book, author Lauren Groff calls The Incendiaries a "strange book written with a kind of savage elegance." I'm not sure anyone will provide a clearer way to describe this work.
It is savage in the way that the characters, all of them, are unrelenting in their pursuit of themselves; they spend the novel chasing spaces they ought to occupy but don't (an ode to a line in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World - a mentor Kwon cites and completely embodies in an occasional line or two).
I was mesmerized by Phoebe. And while I may have found her story disjointed in a way that, even if it comported with the author's intent, betrayed a sense of absolution (even if that absolution came from a lack of ending or the continuance of absence), her presence was large and complex - seductive, really. Others may find the ending unsatisfying. I think it's perfect.
It is savage in the way that the characters, all of them, are unrelenting in their pursuit of themselves; they spend the novel chasing spaces they ought to occupy but don't (an ode to a line in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World - a mentor Kwon cites and completely embodies in an occasional line or two).
I was mesmerized by Phoebe. And while I may have found her story disjointed in a way that, even if it comported with the author's intent, betrayed a sense of absolution (even if that absolution came from a lack of ending or the continuance of absence), her presence was large and complex - seductive, really. Others may find the ending unsatisfying. I think it's perfect.
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Letting this sit in my DNF pile. I was waiting for more interesting culty stuff, not disjointed chapters with narrators that don't do much...