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A review by fiinch
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book CHANGED MEðŸ˜
The writing was flawless. It wasn’t excruciatingly verbose or flowery, it was subtle and intimate and so immersive. I REALLY loved the perspective and how there was no one narrator. The descriptions of femininity and sexuality and the boys’ objectification of these things were weirdly so good to read. The whole book was so raw and telling and there were no details excluded just for being off-putting. The pacing was perfect — it wasn’t SLOW, but there was a lot of filler parts that seemed unnecessary and yet they ended up mostly being my favourite parts. I think there is something so telling about this book technically being about the girls, and yet by the time they die, you still feel like you still have no idea who they are. The book manages to be centred around them and give the illusion of developing them even though really, the only thing developing is the world around them. And I LOVED this. It made their deaths so much sadder. The moment where the narratorsSee Bonnie’s dead body and realise that they never knew her, despite idolising and obsessing over her for all their lives, and now finding her dead, was the biggest moment for me, in the way that I realised that same thing. The deaths were so beautifully and tragically writtenðŸ˜
In every way it was a beautiful book and I wish everybody would read it!! It felt so REAL and raw and full
The writing was flawless. It wasn’t excruciatingly verbose or flowery, it was subtle and intimate and so immersive. I REALLY loved the perspective and how there was no one narrator. The descriptions of femininity and sexuality and the boys’ objectification of these things were weirdly so good to read. The whole book was so raw and telling and there were no details excluded just for being off-putting. The pacing was perfect — it wasn’t SLOW, but there was a lot of filler parts that seemed unnecessary and yet they ended up mostly being my favourite parts. I think there is something so telling about this book technically being about the girls, and yet by the time they die, you still feel like you still have no idea who they are. The book manages to be centred around them and give the illusion of developing them even though really, the only thing developing is the world around them. And I LOVED this. It made their deaths so much sadder. The moment where the narrators
In every way it was a beautiful book and I wish everybody would read it!! It felt so REAL and raw and full