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astridrv 's review for:
All We Shall Know
by Donal Ryan
Edit: I just realized it reminded me a lot of Fleabag, in tone and characters. Except swap the comedy parts for poetry, and bored/overworked rich characters for working class.
Gorgeously written, more violent and bleaker than I expected (CW suicidal ideation, suicide, physical violence, bullying, sex with a minor). The writing was exceptionally strong in my eyes, although the stream of consciousness format made it hard to peal away from the book when I would have needed to. Both the plot and the voice of this book are suffocating, and I had an especially hard time with the narrator's deeply toxic and violent marriage. And then, luminous pages about her relationship with her father, bathed in so much love that it always brought me back to caring about this flawed, unlovable main character, to wish her peace, above all. Extenuating but gorgeous 200 pages.
Gorgeously written, more violent and bleaker than I expected (CW suicidal ideation, suicide, physical violence, bullying, sex with a minor). The writing was exceptionally strong in my eyes, although the stream of consciousness format made it hard to peal away from the book when I would have needed to. Both the plot and the voice of this book are suffocating, and I had an especially hard time with the narrator's deeply toxic and violent marriage. And then, luminous pages about her relationship with her father, bathed in so much love that it always brought me back to caring about this flawed, unlovable main character, to wish her peace, above all. Extenuating but gorgeous 200 pages.