manikahemmerixh 's review for:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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Reviewing and not rating this one because I have very mixed feelings about it. The majority of the book I was just pushing through and could not wait for it to be over. The long, drawn out chapters about politics and war were painful for me. I also spent much of the book having a hard time caring about the characters. However, it's undoubtedly well-written, complex, and there's a lot to unpack. Because of that, I kept waiting to find myself more immersed in it, and by the time I realized that wasn't going to happen I was too far invested to DNF.  I can see why it's considered a classic, I just don't think that it was for me. My favorite part of the whole book was the last two chapters though, so I'm at least glad that finishing it didn't feel like a waste.