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Vita Nostra

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

4.02 AVERAGE

erkkmoon's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

КАК ВООБЩЕ МОЖНО БЫЛО ДОДУМАТЬСЯ ДО ТАКОГО КОНЦЕПТА ЭТО ЖЕ ОХРЕНЕТЬ у меня нет слов (PUN INTENDED???)
короч первую часть книги надо просто ПЕРЕТЕРПЕТЬ, потому что то, что происходит дальше ПРЯМ СТОИТ ТОГО

ceciliamoe's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Dark and quiet (in a way) and certainly different...was a bit hesitant at the start but got reaaaally sucked in. the lack of chapters probably contributed to that. was it wrong of me to try and do the exercises along with sasha? existing as a word seems definitely appealing to me personally. Not the biggest fan of the choosen one/ this normal girl is suddenly and effortlessly the best student ever trope but they made sasha work for it and I enjoyed the deconstruction of it when even her teachers didn't know what to do with her/how to safely teach her. Hope this will continue in book 2.
Written by Ukrainian authors

nikosreadsbooks's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The ending I didn't understand but everything else I liked.

Lisa Pavlenko I love you ❤️

fletcherskiddish's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

rachelmallison's review against another edition

5.0

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elawrence14's review against another edition

4.5

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mmullerm's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

5 stars.

Vita Nostra might be the best book I’ll read this year. I’ve never read anything like this before. Sasha Samokhina’s character development was extremely satisfying and well done.

Elements of this story were reminiscent of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Creepy and unnerving but with a believability that it could actually happen.

I’ll be thinking about this book for a long time.