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These Violent Delights
by Micah Nemerever
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
| EDIT 09/11/21
Fuck it bumping this up to 5 stars bc I can't stop thinking about Paul and Julian lol
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I loved this and got attached to it and the characters the way I do with books that are 5 stars, but what stops it from reaching that full fifth star is I did at times find the writing difficult to comprehend, I felt at times the writing was more focused on sounding pretty than actually explaining what was happening, and I felt this the most in the last chapter, and actually had to look up how the book ended.
However, despite that, I did really love this book. The relationship between these two characters is so complex and it makes you ache. Their love for and obsession with each other is so deeply unhealthy as it sends them both, particularly Paul, spiralling into madness. Their feelings were so intense and so palpable that I feel like it reached inside of me and made me feel it with them. I also loved how much of an unreliable narrator Paul was. For a great deal of the book I was questioning everything Julian said and did, because Paul didn't trust him, and it makes the reader unsure which of them you can trust a little bit more because we can only see the world through Paul's perspective. It was only in the last quarter or so of the book that I felt we really got to see Julian, and I think that was very intentional.
This book makes you hurt but in a way that's so good. It was unlike anything else I've read to be honest, and I feel like this story really will haunt and stick with me
Fuck it bumping this up to 5 stars bc I can't stop thinking about Paul and Julian lol
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I loved this and got attached to it and the characters the way I do with books that are 5 stars, but what stops it from reaching that full fifth star is I did at times find the writing difficult to comprehend, I felt at times the writing was more focused on sounding pretty than actually explaining what was happening, and I felt this the most in the last chapter, and actually had to look up how the book ended.
However, despite that, I did really love this book. The relationship between these two characters is so complex and it makes you ache. Their love for and obsession with each other is so deeply unhealthy as it sends them both, particularly Paul, spiralling into madness. Their feelings were so intense and so palpable that I feel like it reached inside of me and made me feel it with them. I also loved how much of an unreliable narrator Paul was. For a great deal of the book I was questioning everything Julian said and did, because Paul didn't trust him, and it makes the reader unsure which of them you can trust a little bit more because we can only see the world through Paul's perspective. It was only in the last quarter or so of the book that I felt we really got to see Julian, and I think that was very intentional.
This book makes you hurt but in a way that's so good. It was unlike anything else I've read to be honest, and I feel like this story really will haunt and stick with me
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder
Moderate: Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide