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Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

4.19 AVERAGE


Good lord this was boring. I only read this due to my uni course. The prose was pretty at times but then got annoying very fast. This isn't something I would normally read tbh and I think that didn't really help with me trying to finish this book. I still can't get over how there was a chapter explaining where the plague came from. That chapter should have been cut.

It took me some time to get into this, but once I did I was hooked.

La pulga y el duelo le han quitado una estrella...
emotional hopeful sad 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 reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: No

I loved the writing style of this book and I felt like it really pulled me through the story, but the switches in time and perspective felt jarring rather than helpful for context. 
adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

Precioso.

i think it’s very beautiful that shakespeare found a way to immortalise their dead son in the only way he knew possible, which has lived on to be one of the most famous plays ever written, therefore keeping the memory of his son alive! stunning prose too