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emiemin55 's review for:
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
by Claire North
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An unexpected book, intelligent in an incredibly sad way.
It explores issues like personality and society through many different aspects. It never shows us a character who is obviously right or obviously wrong, and I loved it for that. Everyone was right to an extent, just as everyone was wrong to an extent.
Somewhere along the story I started worrying that the characters felt one dimensional and unreal, but looking back I think the author achieved a phenomenal effect of building up their personalities brick by brick. Now when I think of any of the secondary characters, they still feel real to me, like I could walk pass them in the street, like I might see them crying in a corner.
And Hope herself, man. I think her character was perfectly done because we may sometimes fail to consider how much of ourselves is founded in other people. She is her own person, but she is also no one. She is lost and she is found, but mostly she just is. I feel for her, but I don’t know if I love or hate her.
Seriously, beautiful book. Smart and thought provoking.
It explores issues like personality and society through many different aspects. It never shows us a character who is obviously right or obviously wrong, and I loved it for that. Everyone was right to an extent, just as everyone was wrong to an extent.
Somewhere along the story I started worrying that the characters felt one dimensional and unreal, but looking back I think the author achieved a phenomenal effect of building up their personalities brick by brick. Now when I think of any of the secondary characters, they still feel real to me, like I could walk pass them in the street, like I might see them crying in a corner.
And Hope herself, man. I think her character was perfectly done because we may sometimes fail to consider how much of ourselves is founded in other people. She is her own person, but she is also no one. She is lost and she is found, but mostly she just is. I feel for her, but I don’t know if I love or hate her.
Seriously, beautiful book. Smart and thought provoking.