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4.36 AVERAGE
4.36 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
sad
medium-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
4,5⭐️
‘Man, life’s going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing.’
‘Man, life’s going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing.’
a one star and five star read
An amazing book, and very well written. Perhaps it should have been more than a finalist for the National Book Award. For any award that considered it. But there is a lot of despair. Beautiful in how it is handled, but despairing. I am sad at the end, not hopeful as perhaps I should be, maybe as I should be expected to be. I don’t know. So much loss that shouldn’t have been. I don’t regret reading it, but maybe I should. There is sometimes a penalty for reading good writers.
A tax, as one character in the book might say, in a better moment he probably didn’t deserve to be seen.
An amazing book, and very well written. Perhaps it should have been more than a finalist for the National Book Award. For any award that considered it. But there is a lot of despair. Beautiful in how it is handled, but despairing. I am sad at the end, not hopeful as perhaps I should be, maybe as I should be expected to be. I don’t know. So much loss that shouldn’t have been. I don’t regret reading it, but maybe I should. There is sometimes a penalty for reading good writers.
A tax, as one character in the book might say, in a better moment he probably didn’t deserve to be seen.
I can’t describe how I feel after reading this, but I can say that I was impressed, of how illustrative and beautiful written it is, I really liked it.
I believe that this is a good way to understand topics that are usually not talked about, and the different story’s about families on migrants and refugees out there.
Ofc there are scenes that can make ppl uncomfortable but I believe is not without a purpose, the only part I didn’t enjoyed that much was the third book.
I believe that the characters of Hana and Phoebe could have been better developed and their plots could’ve been better constructed and their parts felt tedious at points, but overall I liked how things turned out.
This book is great and moving, God i love Isak so much, I cry every time remember him.
I believe that this is a good way to understand topics that are usually not talked about, and the different story’s about families on migrants and refugees out there.
Ofc there are scenes that can make ppl uncomfortable but I believe is not without a purpose, the only part I didn’t enjoyed that much was the third book.
I believe that the characters of Hana and Phoebe could have been better developed and their plots could’ve been better constructed and their parts felt tedious at points, but overall I liked how things turned out.
This book is great and moving, God i love Isak so much, I cry every time remember him.
It took me a long time to finally finish this book. The beginning was engaging and historically interesting. I liked it and, in retrospect, wish it had ended there. The rest of the book was not engaging though it was still historically interesting to me. More and more and more characters were added but they didn’t add anything.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
challenging
reflective
sad
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
A sad book but it ends in a circular way. I appreciated how there’s a level of continuity and how some character’s fortunes rise and fall. I would’ve liked to have more insight into Noa’s family lineage but I suppose it’s realistic that his storyline falls by the wayside. The book was filled with sadness but so is life. I liked how Solomon has a taste of racism that shifts his worldview, but I wonder what the reality of the situation was. So many people were lost for nonsensical reasons but again I suppose that’s akin to real life. I liked the closure of Hana’s story although I found it unrealistic how Solomon took it to heart.
emotional
informative
reflective
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:
Complicated
Really enjoyed this - as someone who is woefully inept at history, it takes likable and nuanced characters to bring a historical fiction to life for me, and I found that in this book. While I think I classify Sunja as the main protagonist, I found Isak to be my favorite character, followed by Mozasu who really surprised me with how he turned out. I thought I would have loved Noa throughout but he ended up being very tragic after his decision to run away when learning about his biological father and then his suicide just really made it worse - maybe I couldn't understand why the revelation was so awful to him, but it did feel like an overreaction). And I found Hansu to be an interesting character - he had villain-like characteristics but often behaved like a hero; I do question whether he would have had such upstanding moments if Sunja had been pregnant with a girl instead... question for book club I guess!
All in all, I feel better for having read (listened) to this book. It felt deep and true - with unanswered questions on what it means to be a certain nationality.'
Side note, I love the characters' use of "neh" at the end of their sentences - in Brazil, we have the same expression with the same sound, so it was just a fun similarity I would never have known of otherwise!
All in all, I feel better for having read (listened) to this book. It felt deep and true - with unanswered questions on what it means to be a certain nationality.'
Side note, I love the characters' use of "neh" at the end of their sentences - in Brazil, we have the same expression with the same sound, so it was just a fun similarity I would never have known of otherwise!