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A review by blythe_auden
Seven Faceless Saints by M.K. Lobb
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book is so deeply layered and beautifully executed.
It’s one of those moments when reading a book in those major plot twist moments when your heart is hammering in your chest and feels like it will come coughing up from your throat.
It feels like one of those moments after finishing a book that was pure art and wonder and death and pain and hope, where you have to take a moment and stare into nothingness, in an attempt to grasp onto those unsaid and unexplainable feelings
. It’s in those moments you realise the pure skill you must have to be able to ingrain that in a person, and make them relive the experiences of those characters… seconds, weeks, months and years after the binded pages close.
And somewhere between those pages printed with ink, a fracture of the reader stays encapsulated - gripped by the memories.
That is the wonder and art of reading.
It’s books like these that make reading a worthy subject of time.
It’s one of those moments when reading a book in those major plot twist moments when your heart is hammering in your chest and feels like it will come coughing up from your throat.
It feels like one of those moments after finishing a book that was pure art and wonder and death and pain and hope, where you have to take a moment and stare into nothingness, in an attempt to grasp onto those unsaid and unexplainable feelings
. It’s in those moments you realise the pure skill you must have to be able to ingrain that in a person, and make them relive the experiences of those characters… seconds, weeks, months and years after the binded pages close.
And somewhere between those pages printed with ink, a fracture of the reader stays encapsulated - gripped by the memories.
That is the wonder and art of reading.
It’s books like these that make reading a worthy subject of time.