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A review by simplyselicia
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4.0
Coming from Benjamin's other work, there was something about this that was different.
I honestly really really liked this book, but I don't think it is without it's faults. I think listening to the audio book made a lot of the difference up for me. I think without the narrator's help, I might not have read it at the proper pacing. Something about the sentence structure is less poetic and more staccato compared to previous work.
I could identify a lot with the characters. I smiled and cried along with them throughout the story line. I do think that I could have found myself even more in love with them if some points reached more of a climax instead of lulling along, but it never bothered me. Something about that boiling lull made me relate to them even more since there are often many things I don't let reach the surface completely. I could get that.
I recognize that many people couldn't identify with some of the "blandness" between characters, but I just honestly never felt bored by the simplicity of some of the interactions. I think those subtleties are what make and break relationships everywhere. However, we're all different, so levels of patience with introspective rooted story-lines will be different.
Ultimately, I enjoyed it overall. I found a lot of beauty in this story.
I honestly really really liked this book, but I don't think it is without it's faults. I think listening to the audio book made a lot of the difference up for me. I think without the narrator's help, I might not have read it at the proper pacing. Something about the sentence structure is less poetic and more staccato compared to previous work.
I could identify a lot with the characters. I smiled and cried along with them throughout the story line. I do think that I could have found myself even more in love with them if some points reached more of a climax instead of lulling along, but it never bothered me. Something about that boiling lull made me relate to them even more since there are often many things I don't let reach the surface completely. I could get that.
I recognize that many people couldn't identify with some of the "blandness" between characters, but I just honestly never felt bored by the simplicity of some of the interactions. I think those subtleties are what make and break relationships everywhere. However, we're all different, so levels of patience with introspective rooted story-lines will be different.
Ultimately, I enjoyed it overall. I found a lot of beauty in this story.