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dafne_lh 's review for:
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel García Márquez
mysterious
fast-paced
This book was such an interesting read since it feels like a murder mystery novel in reverse. The title and the blurb already set up the book's whole premise. Instantly we as the readers know who dies and who did it, even how and why they did it, but as the story goes on, more and more characters and their memories of the murder are introduced, making it turn into one big spaghetti of ideas. Safe to say, I am not convinced poor Santiago deserved what was inevitably coming for him.
What makes this story so good is that we see the murder and the events leading up to it from so many people's perspectives that it becomes clear their actions (or mostly their inaction) seem to set Santiago's death in stone. The whole plotline felt like some extreme case of the bystander effect combined with so much miscommunication and the limitations of eyewitnesses' memories, that I was more confused than anything by the end of the story. How did a whole town allow a man to be killed? Without any solid proof at that?
Honestly, great book, and I would definitely recommend it.
~ Also, thank you friends for gifting me this book as a bday gift xoxo
What makes this story so good is that we see the murder and the events leading up to it from so many people's perspectives that it becomes clear their actions (or mostly their inaction) seem to set Santiago's death in stone. The whole plotline felt like some extreme case of the bystander effect combined with so much miscommunication and the limitations of eyewitnesses' memories, that I was more confused than anything by the end of the story. How did a whole town allow a man to be killed? Without any solid proof at that?
Honestly, great book, and I would definitely recommend it.
~ Also, thank you friends for gifting me this book as a bday gift xoxo