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El hombre de hojalata

Sarah Winman

4.03 AVERAGE

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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emotional reflective slow-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
emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark emotional sad medium-paced
emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Really beautiful, achingly sad. I love Winman’s writing style. Definitely going to re-read so I can really digest everything. 

Tin man

A story that pulls you to reveal love and its power, manhood and leave you through endless stream of grief.

Tin man is coming of age story following Ellis and Michael’s relationship from boyhood to manhood. About their shared love of art, finding meaning beating true beauty and cherishing one another painfully through in 60s .

Ellis and Michael’s relationship, begins when Michael first met at Ellis’s house. And Dora ( Ellis’s Mother) welcomed him with great passion, realizing that he’s interested in something where his heart belongs. Ellis adores watching her mother and Michael, finding comfort when they are together. But because of Ellis’s patriarch household, their relationship didn’t bloomed in a right way which needs to be.

Soon the trajectory of their fondness & intimacy deepens when they travelled through Europe, in their 20s and loving every second being together. Until their abrupt connection disrupted after coming back to London.

Michael’s pov chapters are much heavier as compared to Ellis’s, they make you feel with his longing of Ellis, until it makes you secretly ache when he realized that Ellis got married.

But as a true friend, he didn’t feel resentful against him because he wants him to experience joy which he can’t experience himself. But quite unexpectedly, he loved Annie and her company. Where being partying and spending time feels good to experience among the trio they created.

When Michael realizes that he’s the odd one out that sticking together in a married couple. Leaving them suddenly and feeling all the loneliness that evades him completely.

I love, love, love this book and can we just take a second to appreciate that this cover is the one of the most beautiful and soul capturing covers ever. I laugh, cried and feel all those emotions in a day while completing this exquisite book. The writing is sooo gorgeous and I was glued from start to finish. Thank you to my dear friend Ana whose book recs are straight dopamine to my brain. I am in awwww of this beauty