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occultislm's review against another edition
4.0
WHY IS NOBODY READING THIS BOOK?!?!?! I NEED A 20 PAGE ESSAY ON THIS NOVELA RIGHT NOW!!
Anyways, this is a good book. It’s very well written with beautiful prose and it was at no point ever boring or uninteresting. The mystery was great and I loved the eerie atmosphere of the whole book. I also loved the themes it very subtly explored through metaphors (like changes in puberty, pedophilia and toxic relationships). Of course, I’m not sure if those ideas the author intended to explore in the first place, but that’s just how I percieved this novel. I think it’s very deep and beautiful and it’s the perfect length. The only problem I have with it is the fact that the characters weren’t developed much and there were some ideas and themes that were mentioned but never explained or alluded to again, although perhaps that was the whole point since the whole book is so ominous and intentionally unexplained to add to the mystery/horror aspect of it. I think it would be amazing if more people read it so that we could discuss the ending and certain other unexplained aspects of it as a community but it seems like, at least for now, it will remain just a complete mystery to me.
Anyways, this is a good book. It’s very well written with beautiful prose and it was at no point ever boring or uninteresting. The mystery was great and I loved the eerie atmosphere of the whole book. I also loved the themes it very subtly explored through metaphors (like changes in puberty, pedophilia and toxic relationships). Of course, I’m not sure if those ideas the author intended to explore in the first place, but that’s just how I percieved this novel. I think it’s very deep and beautiful and it’s the perfect length. The only problem I have with it is the fact that the characters weren’t developed much and there were some ideas and themes that were mentioned but never explained or alluded to again, although perhaps that was the whole point since the whole book is so ominous and intentionally unexplained to add to the mystery/horror aspect of it. I think it would be amazing if more people read it so that we could discuss the ending and certain other unexplained aspects of it as a community but it seems like, at least for now, it will remain just a complete mystery to me.
lepidopteria's review against another edition
4.0
WHY IS NOBODY READING THIS BOOK?!?!?! I NEED A 20 PAGE ESSAY ON THIS NOVELA RIGHT NOW!!
Anyways, this is a good book. It’s very well written with beautiful prose and it was at no point ever boring or uninteresting. The mystery was great and I loved the eerie atmosphere of the whole book. I also loved the themes it very subtly explored through metaphors (like changes in puberty, pedophilia and toxic relationships). Of course, I’m not sure if those ideas the author intended to explore in the first place, but that’s just how I percieved this novel. I think it’s very deep and beautiful and it’s the perfect length. The only problem I have with it is the fact that the characters weren’t developed much and there were some ideas and themes that were mentioned but never explained or alluded to again, although perhaps that was the whole point since the whole book is so ominous and intentionally unexplained to add to the mystery/horror aspect of it. I think it would be amazing if more people read it so that we could discuss the ending and certain other unexplained aspects of it as a community but it seems like, at least for now, it will remain just a complete mystery to me.
Anyways, this is a good book. It’s very well written with beautiful prose and it was at no point ever boring or uninteresting. The mystery was great and I loved the eerie atmosphere of the whole book. I also loved the themes it very subtly explored through metaphors (like changes in puberty, pedophilia and toxic relationships). Of course, I’m not sure if those ideas the author intended to explore in the first place, but that’s just how I percieved this novel. I think it’s very deep and beautiful and it’s the perfect length. The only problem I have with it is the fact that the characters weren’t developed much and there were some ideas and themes that were mentioned but never explained or alluded to again, although perhaps that was the whole point since the whole book is so ominous and intentionally unexplained to add to the mystery/horror aspect of it. I think it would be amazing if more people read it so that we could discuss the ending and certain other unexplained aspects of it as a community but it seems like, at least for now, it will remain just a complete mystery to me.
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