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A review by samkv
Saturday by Ian McEwan
4.0
A unique and well put together story. Despite it all taking course over one day, you get to know the characters and their world. Strangely, I felt like the main character, Henry Perowne, was one who I felt the least connected to.
The first third was slow and a bit confusing with the plane crash, protest going on, and Henry starting his day. The middle third with the accident and his visit to his mother's was more interesting and understandable, and I couldn't put the book down in the last third as the dinner party unfolds. People have complained about McEwan's wordiness, but I didn't find it too distracting. He definitely uses some SAT vocab words I don't know, but some of the medical jargon was logical considering Perowne's a neurosurgeon.
The first third was slow and a bit confusing with the plane crash, protest going on, and Henry starting his day. The middle third with the accident and his visit to his mother's was more interesting and understandable, and I couldn't put the book down in the last third as the dinner party unfolds. People have complained about McEwan's wordiness, but I didn't find it too distracting. He definitely uses some SAT vocab words I don't know, but some of the medical jargon was logical considering Perowne's a neurosurgeon.