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A review by queenfury
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
"It had never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders."
"Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that--little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time--like somehow we were letting the side down."
"Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that--little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time--like somehow we were letting the side down."
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Trafficking, Confinement, and Bullying
Moderate: Death, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content
Minor: Infertility, Infidelity, and Ableism