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A review by elusorius
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
4.0
The prose in this book was so beautiful that no plot could ever hold up to it.
I've saved many quotes from this book, took pictures of pages and reread lines over and over. The writing was simply immaculate. The characters held up too, they felt real and imperfect. The only thing lacking for me was the plot. At times it moved too slowly for my taste, or there wasn't much going on. This book was very character-based. The plot picked up here and there, and I adored the last chapters, but it did lose my attention at certain points. I also found the brief flashes of the future unnecessary.
4/5, because this book set an example for how prose should be.
I've saved many quotes from this book, took pictures of pages and reread lines over and over. The writing was simply immaculate. The characters held up too, they felt real and imperfect. The only thing lacking for me was the plot. At times it moved too slowly for my taste, or there wasn't much going on. This book was very character-based. The plot picked up here and there, and I adored the last chapters, but it did lose my attention at certain points. I also found the brief flashes of the future unnecessary.
4/5, because this book set an example for how prose should be.