lindsey_bear 's review for:

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

3.0

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I found this book very tough to get through. While I thought the setting of the book was extremely interesting and added to the experience, I found the relationship outlined in the book absolutely insufferable. Hans’ emotional abuse of Katharina was frustrating, and her tolerance of it through years and years even more so. I also found the style of switching perspectives between the two, even sometimes mid sentence was hard to follow. Maybe if I was more literarily capable/knowledgable this would have been more of a moving novel, but as a reader for pure pleasure I found Kairos more of a laborious piece.