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A review by lizshayne
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Okay, so you know that thing that Lewis was trying to do in The Last Battle with thinking about the numinous and death and belief?
He pulls it off here.
It’s still Lewis (and, while I realize this is an ABSURD comment, I had forgotten how good of a writer he is and how perfectly elegantly he sucks you in to the inner world of his characters) and the man does not do subtle. But he does do elegance and this is elegant in so many ways.
And it’s deeply enmeshed in stereotypes about beauty and ugliness even as it’s Lewis at his most sympathetic.
It’s a complicated book, but what he sets out to do…map the experience of the sacred using nothing but words…there’s a reason I needed to finish it before rosh hashana.
(Did I read an audiobook in two days…maybe)
He pulls it off here.
It’s still Lewis (and, while I realize this is an ABSURD comment, I had forgotten how good of a writer he is and how perfectly elegantly he sucks you in to the inner world of his characters) and the man does not do subtle. But he does do elegance and this is elegant in so many ways.
And it’s deeply enmeshed in stereotypes about beauty and ugliness even as it’s Lewis at his most sympathetic.
It’s a complicated book, but what he sets out to do…map the experience of the sacred using nothing but words…there’s a reason I needed to finish it before rosh hashana.
(Did I read an audiobook in two days…maybe)