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jesshorn10 's review for:
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
In all honesty, I probably should have given this book 4.5 stars, or maybe even a 4, but the third story was something that I'll probably be thinking about forever, and it was so perfect that I couldn’t bear to give this book less than 5 stars.
This book is made up of three short stories that relate to each other in character names and themes. Each of the stories can be read as its own individual thing, and they don’t tie together in any significant way. The characters having the same names confused me a bit at first, but once I figured out that there didn't seem to be a reason for this, I enjoyed it a lot more.
The first story was an alternative historical fiction about family and forbidden love.
The second was a story about identity and the relationship between a father and son.
The third story was a dystopian look at a future riddled by pandemic after pandemic and how people dealt with living in the aftermath, and the times leading up to it.
When I first picked this up, I was afraid that I wouldn’t enjoy it. I loved “A Little Life” so very much, and I was afraid that nothing else could ever even come close to living up to it, and although this book definitely isn’t on par with “A Little Life", it is still one of the best books I’ve read this year. Hanya Yanagihara has officially become an auto-buy author for me. I will be reading anything and everything she writes.
This book is made up of three short stories that relate to each other in character names and themes. Each of the stories can be read as its own individual thing, and they don’t tie together in any significant way. The characters having the same names confused me a bit at first, but once I figured out that there didn't seem to be a reason for this, I enjoyed it a lot more.
The first story was an alternative historical fiction about family and forbidden love.
The second was a story about identity and the relationship between a father and son.
The third story was a dystopian look at a future riddled by pandemic after pandemic and how people dealt with living in the aftermath, and the times leading up to it.
When I first picked this up, I was afraid that I wouldn’t enjoy it. I loved “A Little Life” so very much, and I was afraid that nothing else could ever even come close to living up to it, and although this book definitely isn’t on par with “A Little Life", it is still one of the best books I’ve read this year. Hanya Yanagihara has officially become an auto-buy author for me. I will be reading anything and everything she writes.