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A review by shadybanana
Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
3.0
Honestly I hate these kind of books. Oliver Twist, Bleak House, Wuthering Heights and all of Brontes and the Austens and Eyres. I don’t even know why. The melancholy and the misery just makes my heart go weird and I don’t like it. And what I don’t like, I don’t rate good. A screwed up logic you say? Yeah sure why not whatever.
BUT this book didn’t fail to amuse me. Firstly I don’t know if I’ve ever said this in a review before but Aubyn does a fantastic job writing this. The words and the flow of the phrases and stuff is praiseworthy. I’m sure there are other authors who’ve written or write at the same if not a better level, but I never reviewed them so.
Anyway the characters are well-rounded (if that’s a thing you can say). Patrick is just adorable. I’ve been told the next books are different and consequential and I must say I can’t wait. As much as I hated David Melrose I also liked him. Same with Nicholas. But if there’s one person I hated it was his mother. I can’t really explain why but David and Nicholas’ behavior frighteningly seems real but her mother is just abnormally dismal. I feel for her but I still can’t help but hate her.
See? I think the reason I liked this book was because I’m not sure which characters I like and which don’t and why I don’t like them. That’s a really neat trick to hook the reader, I’d say.
BUT this book didn’t fail to amuse me. Firstly I don’t know if I’ve ever said this in a review before but Aubyn does a fantastic job writing this. The words and the flow of the phrases and stuff is praiseworthy. I’m sure there are other authors who’ve written or write at the same if not a better level, but I never reviewed them so.
Anyway the characters are well-rounded (if that’s a thing you can say). Patrick is just adorable. I’ve been told the next books are different and consequential and I must say I can’t wait. As much as I hated David Melrose I also liked him. Same with Nicholas. But if there’s one person I hated it was his mother. I can’t really explain why but David and Nicholas’ behavior frighteningly seems real but her mother is just abnormally dismal. I feel for her but I still can’t help but hate her.
See? I think the reason I liked this book was because I’m not sure which characters I like and which don’t and why I don’t like them. That’s a really neat trick to hook the reader, I’d say.