A review by aqsa_ayman
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

3.0

I liked how well formed the characters were, and in particular Pinkie's repulsion towards sex and marriage. That's a perspective I haven't seen before in books and shows with similar themes. Pinkie's fragile ego and vulnerability is so exposed that you feel numb about his treatment of Rose and the other characters. It's why Ida's free and jovial personality works so well in opposition to him, although they have very little contact.

I do however feel the story was dull and didn't match up to the depth of these characters, and there was a lot of dense writing that I didn't care for. It doesn't seem like Pinkie is a particularly talented or clever boss, so I wonder if I missed how he got top rank in their gang after Kite.

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