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A review by allapaz
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
1.75
4/5 for the women's chapters, 0.5/5 for Ansel's, so we'll round this out at 1.75 because it really drove me nuts.
There's something to be said about leaving interpretation up to the reader, but then there's leaving so much up to the reader that the message of your work gets lost entirely. We spend so much time listening to women blaming themselves for this man's actions, and him blaming the divine intervention of the universe, just to get a turnaround payoff in the last 7% of the book. There were nuggets of suspense here and there, but ultimately you spend so much time on the 'mystery' of a story that you knew how it ended from the title....just wish this packed more of a punch.
Also if I had to hear one more description of this man's floppy penis I was about to give up on reading ever again forever
There's something to be said about leaving interpretation up to the reader, but then there's leaving so much up to the reader that the message of your work gets lost entirely. We spend so much time listening to women blaming themselves for this man's actions, and him blaming the divine intervention of the universe, just to get a turnaround payoff in the last 7% of the book. There were nuggets of suspense here and there, but ultimately you spend so much time on the 'mystery' of a story that you knew how it ended from the title....just wish this packed more of a punch.
Also if I had to hear one more description of this man's floppy penis I was about to give up on reading ever again forever
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Violence, Death, Child death, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Grief