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Expiación

Ian McEwan

3.92 AVERAGE

jessss_60's review against another edition

2.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

I HATED this book when I was studying it because nothing fucking happens for 90% of it. Kids practicing a play, a headache, a dinner party, Robbie walking through France, Briony being a nurse, some made-up arguing. That's it. But the message of the novel - thoughtless actions having butterfly-effect-style catastrophic impacts on lives - has stuck with me two years later, so... Well done, I guess.

amybrooklyn's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ciaranimhuiri's review against another edition

3.0

reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

dunyaaaa's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

huffmaneric's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gummyacid's review against another edition

3.0

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Super disappointed by the ending, especially when the beginning and the prose was great. I felt as if the novel was building up to something great and deflated at the very end.

brezz7731's review against another edition

3.0

after stewing over this book for awhile i’ve realized that the reason i gave it three stars is solely because of the ending. the pacing certainly could’ve been better overall but before the end ruined everything i would’ve given it 4 stars. just so unnecessarily abrupt and it almost seemed like it was just trying so hard to have an edgy or artsy ending. i feel like those aren’t the right words but it was dangling a certain ending into the reader’s face and then its like haha jk i hope you’re hungry…for nothing