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mergus 's review for:
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
The good:
- Very descriptive, flowing, evocative writing. So very readable.
- The whole second section set in 1993 New York / Hawaii (a bit earlier). I really enjoyed this whole part, the complex relations, the failed politics, the failed parenting; as well as the very affecting dinner party in 1993.
- The worldbuilding for the 2093 section! Hanya clearly had a very mindful pandemic, the dystopian society in 2093 is very detailed and very well thought through. The effects of multiple pandemics and global warming on politics, internationally and internally, are cleverly written.
- Well drawn, believable characters with interesting relationships to each other.
The less good:
- I honestly think the whole first section could be cut. It felt pointless writing this alternate history US, writing a very conventional love story that everyone has heard note by note before, and then not having the alternate history factor into any of the later sections.
- Hanya Yanagihara write a main character without a secret that will be slowly revealed to the reader challenge - impossible.
- I felt the climax of the final section was quite weak.
Feeling a high 3 on this one.
- Very descriptive, flowing, evocative writing. So very readable.
- The whole second section set in 1993 New York / Hawaii (a bit earlier). I really enjoyed this whole part, the complex relations, the failed politics, the failed parenting; as well as the very affecting dinner party in 1993.
- The worldbuilding for the 2093 section! Hanya clearly had a very mindful pandemic, the dystopian society in 2093 is very detailed and very well thought through. The effects of multiple pandemics and global warming on politics, internationally and internally, are cleverly written.
- Well drawn, believable characters with interesting relationships to each other.
The less good:
- I honestly think the whole first section could be cut. It felt pointless writing this alternate history US, writing a very conventional love story that everyone has heard note by note before, and then not having the alternate history factor into any of the later sections.
- Hanya Yanagihara write a main character without a secret that will be slowly revealed to the reader challenge - impossible.
- I felt the climax of the final section was quite weak.
Feeling a high 3 on this one.