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To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
4.0

This one took me a little longer than A Little Life… it also took me longer to start than A Little Life because I wasn’t ready to have my heart wrenched out of my body again.

To Paradise still broke my heart but in a softer, yet somehow deeper way. Spanning 200 years and 700 pages, Yanagihara gives time to dig in and really sting you with a strange hopelessness.

I both love and hate reading Yanagihara. Her writing creates and stirs such intense emotions that the next few books I read are met with numbness, authors barely scraping the surface layer of feeling.

Flew through Book I and Book II but Book III dragged ever so slightly, largely due to my general disinterest in dystopian novels, which is obviously not the authors fault but the only reason I haven’t given 5 stars!