987 reviews for:

A lo lejos

Hernan Diaz

4.17 AVERAGE

adventurous reflective slow-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
adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous reflective
adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark reflective sad 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: No
adventurous reflective sad medium-paced
adventurous hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

overall, awesome and beautiful depiction of mostly CA’s wilderness. felt that Hakan was unrealistically good at everything despite terrible luck, which made the story less interesting bc you knew he was gonna get that plot armor. lorimer was cool, but like what was that ending man
adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This is the second Hernan Diaz I’ve read, and they both Do A Thing, narrative-wise. Trust was more effective, but this still fundamentally worked. 

A classic American allegory epic, it’s short and yet at the same time I fell asleep reading it twice. Liked it overall though! 

Reading this three months after reading East of Eden was a trip. The American West, man! It contains multitudes!