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A review by bettenboujee
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
1.0
I knew this wasn't going to be a book I'd enjoy, but still wanted to tackle it as one of the National Book Award finalists for fiction and also because you never know, I might be surprised!
The summary kind of touches on how Ivvár and Willa's relationship is affected by their respective fathers, but I honestly wasn't prepared for even more POVs and almost indistinguishable perspectives, making this so hard to follow. Other reviewers have noted that the character perspective changes mid-paragraph and any semblance of everyone being connected is a hot mess.
The most interesting part of the book for me was the treatment of the Sámi, which got nowhere near enough attention for how long this book is. I wish it was less glossed over because that was the one aspect that actually made this feel like an individual story, and not a generic romanticized historical European book.
The summary kind of touches on how Ivvár and Willa's relationship is affected by their respective fathers, but I honestly wasn't prepared for even more POVs and almost indistinguishable perspectives, making this so hard to follow. Other reviewers have noted that the character perspective changes mid-paragraph and any semblance of everyone being connected is a hot mess.
The most interesting part of the book for me was the treatment of the Sámi, which got nowhere near enough attention for how long this book is. I wish it was less glossed over because that was the one aspect that actually made this feel like an individual story, and not a generic romanticized historical European book.