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A review by carrington
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
I have a lot of thoughts. This book felt like if “Don’t Look Up” was like intellectualized or something. The deep individual worlds that were built at the beginning lost some of its flavor once it was met by the US government.
I know this book is meant to help us ponder our own existence, but I felt it leaned it too far to our own similarities than our differences. If you saw your double, perhaps you’d have identical thoughts but odds are… you wouldn’t. Because, in this case, the two individuals have had different lived experiences (for the past 3 months). I wanted more from the meeting of the minds, mainly because the author does such a fantastic job creating these minds at the onset of the novel.
Lastly, this is the second book I’ve read this year in which a male author writes about a sexual assault done to a woman/girl. It does next to nothing for the story and feels largely unnecessary to include/ describe to some detail, which was honestly upsetting.
I know this book is meant to help us ponder our own existence, but I felt it leaned it too far to our own similarities than our differences. If you saw your double, perhaps you’d have identical thoughts but odds are… you wouldn’t. Because, in this case, the two individuals have had different lived experiences (for the past 3 months). I wanted more from the meeting of the minds, mainly because the author does such a fantastic job creating these minds at the onset of the novel.
Lastly, this is the second book I’ve read this year in which a male author writes about a sexual assault done to a woman/girl. It does next to nothing for the story and feels largely unnecessary to include/ describe to some detail, which was honestly upsetting.
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual assault