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A review by erikbergstrom
Dear Laura by Gemma Amor
4.0
Read this in 3 lunch break sittings (which is good, for me!) Kept wanting to go back to it. Gemma Amor has a confident voice that's easy & addictive to read. Me being a lover of forests, I found her descriptions of the wild are the best parts.
A rather original tale, told in a unique way. The entire tragic, tortured life of a woman told in just 100 pages or so. Sometimes those horrors, the prolonged ones that never leave you, are worse than the short, impactful, traumatic ones. The ones where you could live a year or 5 thinking you're safe, but always have a burning itch to turn around and look. Amor captures that torment wonderfully here (is that an oxymoron?)
As it all goes by rather quickly, there were a few questions I was left with that I felt not enough time was taken to answer. The way the story is told might've been hampered by lingering on these details, however there may have been a clever way to incorporate them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've got White Pines on my to read list, and now I'm more excited than ever to read it. Spending more time in the worlds constructed by Ms. Amor can't be a bad thing at all!
A rather original tale, told in a unique way. The entire tragic, tortured life of a woman told in just 100 pages or so. Sometimes those horrors, the prolonged ones that never leave you, are worse than the short, impactful, traumatic ones. The ones where you could live a year or 5 thinking you're safe, but always have a burning itch to turn around and look. Amor captures that torment wonderfully here (is that an oxymoron?)
As it all goes by rather quickly, there were a few questions I was left with that I felt not enough time was taken to answer. The way the story is told might've been hampered by lingering on these details, however there may have been a clever way to incorporate them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've got White Pines on my to read list, and now I'm more excited than ever to read it. Spending more time in the worlds constructed by Ms. Amor can't be a bad thing at all!