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Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy

3.87 AVERAGE


Had to read slowly to really absorb but worth it
challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Biggest turn around in a reread went from a 1 to prolly a 3 that might be a 5 honestly. I'm not sure I completely understand it. Maybe It is just what it is. Maybe that's the point. It's tragic and emotional without any substance that really should be. I wanna read up on some of the name mentioned.
The opening to the passenger is now more heartbreaking. She says she wouldn't wanna be found. But the red ribbon shows that when she did do it, she wanted to be. She was scared. 
That's actually makes me sob.

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ash_acoustic's review

2.0
dark reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Great writer but I find myself again (after Passenger) asking, what was the point? A quick and easy read, but did not get much out of it unfortunately.
reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No

Had to read slowly to really absorb but worth it
challenging dark slow-paced

Quite good - interesting story and way to tell it. Intrigued to try out more McCarthy

Vielen Dank an Netgalley und den Argon Verlag für das kostenlose Hörbuch-Leseexemplar.
Nachdem ich für das Hörbuch bestätigt wurde, realisierte ich, dass es ein zweiter Teil ist. Weil ich dachte, ich müsste "Der Psssagier" zuerst lesen, habe ich dieses Hörbuch gekauft und zu hören begonnen. Leider kam ich mit dem Passagier überhaupt nicht klar und gab es zurück.
Mit Stella Maris hatte ich von Anfang an ein viel besseres Hör-Erlebnis und hatte nicht im geringsten das Gefühl, dass mir etwas fehlte, da ich den ersten Teil nicht kannte.
Dennoch fand ich den Psychiater und seine Fragen wirklich nervig. Ständig wiederholte er Alicias Aussagen in Frageform. Oder frug endlos "Warum?". Da wir hier nur diese beiden Charaktere haben, hätte mir eine "Full-Cast-Audio-Produktion" wohl besser gefallen.
Abgesehen davon beinhaltete die Geschichte viele interessante Denkansätze. Dreieinhalb Sterne von mir.

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