You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
danamashall 's review for:
A Leopard-Skin Hat
by Anne Serre
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was interesting, and deep and dark. I think it did a spectacular job of portraying mental illness and what it is like being best friends with someone extremely mentally ill. Yet, it was short, maybe too short, but it felt suffocating and claustrophobic. This is one of those book that, in my opinion, you have to read a physical copy of. I read it on my kindle and I will definitely be buying a physical copy and re-reading it a year, or a few years.
The book is essentially about the friendship of a woman and her guy best friend, The Narrator. I think this itself is so cleverly done. It portrays how closed off the woman is, needing a narrator to tell her story for. You also only get the perspective of the woman through the lens of the Narrator, never really getting an inside look into her mind. But that's not what this book is about. It's about the power, or the lack of power, of friendship. It is how you simply want to be a good friend, and how that becomes into this all-encompassing journey that overtakes your life for a while. You are picking up the pieces of the woman with the Narrator, and you are trying to piece her together and understand her alongside him.
It is a fantastic exploration of friendship and the peaks of the valleys of it, and how it can only help so much sometimes, even when we try our hardest to make things better. The structure of the book also, being short but hyper-focused on the main character you can tell was done so purposefully. You only learn about the Narrator by being told things about him through her. There is really no escape.
It is a book I am looking forward to re-reading, but it is definitely deep, dark, and heavy.
The book is essentially about the friendship of a woman and her guy best friend, The Narrator. I think this itself is so cleverly done. It portrays how closed off the woman is, needing a narrator to tell her story for. You also only get the perspective of the woman through the lens of the Narrator, never really getting an inside look into her mind. But that's not what this book is about. It's about the power, or the lack of power, of friendship. It is how you simply want to be a good friend, and how that becomes into this all-encompassing journey that overtakes your life for a while. You are picking up the pieces of the woman with the Narrator, and you are trying to piece her together and understand her alongside him.
It is a fantastic exploration of friendship and the peaks of the valleys of it, and how it can only help so much sometimes, even when we try our hardest to make things better. The structure of the book also, being short but hyper-focused on the main character you can tell was done so purposefully. You only learn about the Narrator by being told things about him through her. There is really no escape.
It is a book I am looking forward to re-reading, but it is definitely deep, dark, and heavy.