Reviews

Change: A Novel by Édouard Louis

rmontanar's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

ladyameise's review against another edition

inspiring reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

svetilnik_boris's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

renskeverkuijlen's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

atmosphaera's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

zvenja's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

inej_s_laugh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

dmknyc's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

marval100's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

This book is not good. I read the whole thing but was basically skimming through the end. The book has inconsistencies throughout it which makes it feel sloppy. The author also has an intense arrogance that really impacted my view of everything. It's very "my life is hard feel bad for me" when they objectively didn't have a particularly bad time. Mostly they made fancy friends and/or had sex with much older people who could help them in life and didn't do much work. The real kicker for me was the author saying they wasted so much time not accepting their gayness. But came out and had their first gay sexual experience at 17. Which is pretty damn young so seems like they accepted it pretty quick. I can understand the struggle of coming to terms with yourself, especially if you grow up in a homophobic environment, but the tonedeaf lack of appreciation for how anyone else who's gay may have experienced this is ugly. 

The writing is also really sappy and trying too hard

youritenhoeve's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5