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4.47 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The second book in this Quadrilogy(?) The continued story of Lenu and Lila, strong women in Italy, this novel taking them into adulthood.
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I feel about this second volume pretty much the same way I felt about the first: it's super readable--even too much so--perceptive and moving at times, but also in some strange way superficial, easy, even old fashioned. This modernist voice clashes, a bit, with the modernity of the story being told. Of course I'm moving on to the next volume, though, so who am I to knock what I obviously find pleasing enough to stay with?
Não acredito que esse livro termina assim???? Eu tô passando mal
Lila and Lenu are now 16 and their lives are diverging. Lila us newly married to Stefano Carracci while Lenu is in school, has a crush on the introspective Nino but is still dating Antonio.
This book has so many important and haunting themes: marriage, sex, coming of age, rape, abuse, education, power struggles between men and women, machismo, family.
Lila and Lenu’s friendship is real and immersive. I struggle to believe that this is fiction. The people and situations are so nuanced- like real life. I can’t wait to read book 3 & 4.
Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan novels are so in depth and real that you know the author speaks from experience. She loved there. She knows these people.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes