Review by oceanebooks - Swimming in the Dark

oceanebooks 's review for:

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I am destroyed. The language is beyond beautiful and the story beyond sad. I’ll keep on thinking about this for a long time. Really loved how the ambivalence of it all, the flaws of all the characters were portrayed in such a human and their almost desperate-to-be-good way. I really loved the end when the author wrote: “you can’t force someone to love you the way you want to be loved.” It’s a common phrase but in this context of this book it was so bittersweet. So fucking bittersweet.

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