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A review by morganecamille
After the Silence by Louise O'Neill
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
It was not at all what I was expecting, explaining partly why I didn't enjoy it.
It is advertised as a thriller but the ending is pretty obvious from the beginning. The whole story mainly focus on the Kinsella family (especially the couple) and doesn't develop any other characters. There's therefore not a lot of suspense for the ending.
Moreover, I couldn't find myself liking any of the characters, to the point of finding them frankly annoying. The constant focus of Keelin and the borderline self victimisation also took me out of the story and I ended up skipping a part of the story.
I was expecting something detailing more the universe of the island and the relationships between one another but it was pretty much summed up as a caricature, nothing profound.
It seems that some aspects as the characters were too redundant as it could have been more interesting to add different colours to them. They seem to have one characteristic, as to signal their role (the controlling husband, the abused wife, the damaged son, the spoiled daughter, etc.) Seems too easy and brings nothing new to the table.
The more deeply subject of abuse is quite interesting but again, takes too much space in a story that was advertised as "crime/thriller"
It is advertised as a thriller but the ending is pretty obvious from the beginning. The whole story mainly focus on the Kinsella family (especially the couple) and doesn't develop any other characters. There's therefore not a lot of suspense for the ending.
Moreover, I couldn't find myself liking any of the characters, to the point of finding them frankly annoying. The constant focus of Keelin and the borderline self victimisation also took me out of the story and I ended up skipping a part of the story.
I was expecting something detailing more the universe of the island and the relationships between one another but it was pretty much summed up as a caricature, nothing profound.
It seems that some aspects as the characters were too redundant as it could have been more interesting to add different colours to them. They seem to have one characteristic, as to signal their role (the controlling husband, the abused wife, the damaged son, the spoiled daughter, etc.) Seems too easy and brings nothing new to the table.
The more deeply subject of abuse is quite interesting but again, takes too much space in a story that was advertised as "crime/thriller"