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A review by antoniosantos
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
5.0
It's a brilliant and strangely twisted story in the codependency and violent human psyche. Not everyone will understand this book exactly because of the obvious it proposes and does: demonstrating a toxic and obsessive relationship between two boys in 1970s, and what the vision of homosexual relationships was like, which obscures the characters' background, not necessarily the focal point of the story; because, however, the relationship between Paul and Julian is about how identifiable and disturbed minds are nuanced, so it's clear that many people will not like a book with incredible prose that opens these themes wide open.
The most interesting thing is perhaps to sometimes feel "empathy" for these characters, "empathy" not in the full sense of the word itself, but of wanting them to be able to "fix" themselves even if it has to be impossible in this case.
I really like stories that shine a light on the strange and sick human psyche, the reconstruction of reality to fit your desires so tiny in this vastness of precepts that control the being and governs its obedience.
The ending is *sigh*,
the electrifying lines of a chaotic reasoning amid situations that imply the breaking of the "perfect desire"
and the "undefeated want"
and the "insane fantasy".
The most interesting thing is perhaps to sometimes feel "empathy" for these characters, "empathy" not in the full sense of the word itself, but of wanting them to be able to "fix" themselves even if it has to be impossible in this case.
I really like stories that shine a light on the strange and sick human psyche, the reconstruction of reality to fit your desires so tiny in this vastness of precepts that control the being and governs its obedience.
The ending is *sigh*,
the electrifying lines of a chaotic reasoning amid situations that imply the breaking of the "perfect desire"
and the "undefeated want"
and the "insane fantasy".