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A review by trnnnty
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
what... was... that...?
I was very much excited to read this novel and to say that it let me down is... quite an understatement. Seeing the positive reviews on this, saying how it poetically and eloquently describe grief, made me want to get into this novel even more, but I guess this book is not for everyone—and it certainly is not for me. I am not really a fan of 'zombie' or 'apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic' stories but I figured then that this book would somehow be a good start in exploring the genre. However, this only made me not want to dive into the genre (though there are still some parts of me that urges me to explore more, maybe my view will change).
At first, I thought that I wasn't smart enough to understand what was happening in the story, that it's too abstract, ambiguous, and vague for my level of comprehension, but it wasn't because of that at all. This novel tried so hard to be metaphorical and symbolic to the point that it lost its true sense and direction. It does have quotable quotes though, I'll give it a star for that. Here are some of it:
I was very much excited to read this novel and to say that it let me down is... quite an understatement. Seeing the positive reviews on this, saying how it poetically and eloquently describe grief, made me want to get into this novel even more, but I guess this book is not for everyone—and it certainly is not for me. I am not really a fan of 'zombie' or 'apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic' stories but I figured then that this book would somehow be a good start in exploring the genre. However, this only made me not want to dive into the genre (though there are still some parts of me that urges me to explore more, maybe my view will change).
At first, I thought that I wasn't smart enough to understand what was happening in the story, that it's too abstract, ambiguous, and vague for my level of comprehension, but it wasn't because of that at all. This novel tried so hard to be metaphorical and symbolic to the point that it lost its true sense and direction. It does have quotable quotes though, I'll give it a star for that. Here are some of it:
Maybe Mitchem is right about beauty. He says it persists because it was one of the few real things. Beauty. Dreams. Boredom. Hunger. More than anything, hunger.
This sadness is not an empty church and not an empty house. It is the whole world and I am in it and it is in me.