Reviews - The Enchantment Of Lily Dahl

40 reviews for:

The Enchantment Of Lily Dahl

Siri Hustvedt

3.32 AVERAGE

maijasierra's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

spudrph's review against another edition

5.0

Tremendous. Strange, spooky, but incredibly well done.

tingletangle's review against another edition

3.0

As it says on the back of the book - the ordinary and the strange are woven together in this book. I got to think about the movie 'Fargo' while reading this book.
Well written.
The pages in my copy were very filled with text which annoyed me.

adhochman's review against another edition

3.0

I usually enjoy Siri Hustvedt's writing but there was a romance novel quality about this book that worked against some of her usual simple but elegant insight about the people we think we are in the face of art about us.

lucyroth's review against another edition

4.0

Balanced between the world of sexy, fanfic-esque platitudes and gripping, disillusioned, heart wrenching devotions — this book had me up in wraps for the 2 day duration it took to read it. In love with Siri Hustvedt

hearingtrumpet's review against another edition

4.0

Yes!! Still love you Siri. Now I am cursing myself for putting your other two remaining novels in the queue for so long. Found this early gem in a second hand bookstore that is somehow similar and very different from everything else I have read. It is brainy, but not so apparently so. It is more visceral, twisted and disturbing, more Paul Austery if you can say that, but better. I cannot point to particular stylistic elements that stand out, it just all works seemingly effortlessly, which means there was definitely a lot of effort put into it. The characters all breath with life, and the setting, rural Minnesota with its peculiar set of inhabitants perfectly combines the depressingly mundane with gothic mystery.