rkwoolston 's review for:

Find Me by André Aciman

1.0

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This book was so disappointing as a sequel to CMBYN. It was also disappointing as a book on its own. The amount of times I read “I loved this/he loved this/she loved it when.../I loved it when”. Can I actually see what these emotions are instead of being told repeatedly that characters just love things? The only resemblance to the characters in CMBYN is the names of characters, otherwise they seem totally different and bleed into each other with no distinct voices between narrators. I’m confused by the representation of class and classicism in this book. Everyone just has people cooking dinner for them and second homes. The way time passes in this books is by dropping a random line that such and such visit was 5 years ago and now all of a sudden we are in France or back in Italy or somewhere in the states. The amount of banter from characters is debilitating and goes nowhere. All of a sudden Elio plays detective with Michel....for what? It leads to nothing relevant to whatever the plot is supposed to be. Still not sure what the point of Samuel’s whole section was for. Just to get us to Elio’s half brother existing? But what does the kid matter to any plot points? I’m struck that this book was written by the same author as CMBYN. Such different skills in writing between these two books.