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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
Ik vind het vreselijk, maar ik stop met dit boek. Heb me door deel 1&2 geworsteld, het kan me niets meer schelen hoe het in deel 3 afloopt….
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Book 1 - 4.5 stars
Book 2 - 4 stars
Book 3 - 3 stars
(3.83 stars overall)
This was a monster of a read--all 700 pages were dense with story and meanings. I liked all three of the stories, but in my opinion they crossed too many genres to be put together into one book. In this book, same as A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara writes people so beautifully. She truly knows how to bring humanity and nuance into every character. However, I agree with a lot of other reviews that all of the stories weren't cohesive enough to be together in one book, and if they were there was something that I wasn't understanding that I felt like I should.
Book 2 - 4 stars
Book 3 - 3 stars
(3.83 stars overall)
This was a monster of a read--all 700 pages were dense with story and meanings. I liked all three of the stories, but in my opinion they crossed too many genres to be put together into one book. In this book, same as A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara writes people so beautifully. She truly knows how to bring humanity and nuance into every character. However, I agree with a lot of other reviews that all of the stories weren't cohesive enough to be together in one book, and if they were there was something that I wasn't understanding that I felt like I should.
Dark, ambiguous, beautiful. A warning and a reminder. I adored this.
Hanya is incapable of not writing a masterpiece but this fell flatter than usually for me. Beautifully written, the stories and characters pull you in immediately. Overall though, the format of 3 separate novellas left me wanting to know more and live with at least the first 2 stories a lot longer. Haunting to read during the pandemic, “This disease showed us who we truly are.”
4.5 stars rounded up. Holy moly. A behemoth of a novel that isn’t going to be for everyone. I read a review in advance that described it as three separate books, which It really is. I’m glad I read that because it helped me power through. Books one and three are the strongest. It’s definitely hard not knowing the outcome for your favorite characters. So much left hanging. Not gonna lie, book three was really unsettling and gave me bad dreams. It hits pretty close to home in the midst of the covid pandemic. That one is going to haunt me for a while. This book is a big undertaking but for me, it was worth it.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm going to have to look up synopses of this book bc I'm not 100% I understood the whole thing lol. But it is sooo good!! Might be the longest book I'll read this year.
The description of this book made it seem like a fun sci-fi romp. Instead, it was a sometimes frustrating, sometimes devastating personal drama about how history repeats itself but morphs slightly each time. The second book draaaaaaaags but the first and third make up for it.
I don't think I get it. The three distinct parts of this 700+-page doorstop do not add up to a brilliant whole. I get the recurring themes, the echoes of names and places, but this never builds into something spectacular, or anything at all. It feels like people's affection for the author's last book is inflating their affection for this one.
not my typical read because i prefer quick-reads and romance, but this book was definitely written very well. i think i lost some of it a bit as i listened to most of it rather than read it and my mind tended to wander. three stars instead of four simply for personal taste.(2nd story was my least fave)