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theresam18 's review for:
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
I saw a post on Instagram about this book from Goop. The reviewer said "I feel like I was smart enough to catch 50 percent of the connections in..." this book. And that's exactly how I felt when I read it. Don't get me wrong - I LOVED it. It was beautifully written, and I was so caught up in each of the stories in each of the books.
But I felt like I was supposed to be understanding more than I was - that Yanagihara was leading me to more, but I just could not put my finger on it. Yes, I realize that the characters overlapped in all three books. Yes, I realized each book took place 100 years apart - just a few years before the turn of each century. Yes, I realized that much of the book even took place in the same house in NYC. In Book 3, they actually even referenced the story of Book 1!
But am I missing something? Are all of these characters related? Reincarnations? Living in parallel worlds? (All up for interpretation?) I think I would have enjoyed and appreciated this even more if I had read it as part of a book club - there is obviously much to discuss.
I waivered between four and five stars on this one - though I ultimately went with five - I do wish the story tied together the worlds somehow (and I really want to know what happened to each of the characters at the end of their books!).
*I read this as part of the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge - "A book published in 2022"
But I felt like I was supposed to be understanding more than I was - that Yanagihara was leading me to more, but I just could not put my finger on it. Yes, I realize that the characters overlapped in all three books. Yes, I realized each book took place 100 years apart - just a few years before the turn of each century. Yes, I realized that much of the book even took place in the same house in NYC. In Book 3, they actually even referenced the story of Book 1!
But am I missing something? Are all of these characters related? Reincarnations? Living in parallel worlds? (All up for interpretation?) I think I would have enjoyed and appreciated this even more if I had read it as part of a book club - there is obviously much to discuss.
I waivered between four and five stars on this one - though I ultimately went with five - I do wish the story tied together the worlds somehow (and I really want to know what happened to each of the characters at the end of their books!).
*I read this as part of the 2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge - "A book published in 2022"