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A review by coca_reads
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I don't really know how I feel about this.
The prose was absolutely beautiful. The imagery was excellent and conjures scenes of the Italian countryside in summer, along to coast.
You can feel how much the author loves this setting.
What I'm less sure about are the paths of the characters Elio and Oliver.
Elio is a teenager at the start of this and his attitude, and obsessiveness shows it. He's immature and has a schoolboy crush. He's a bit spoiled and doesn't know how to react when things don't go his way, but he's still young and some of that can be attributed to youth.
Though it seems like maturity never really develops as the story shifts to years later and Elio still seems bitter and still absolutely in love with his childhood crush, who has since moved on, married, and has a family of his own.
I admit I'm not great with social interactions, and I'm even worse at parsing meaning and motives from stories, but it just felt off for me.
The prose was absolutely beautiful. The imagery was excellent and conjures scenes of the Italian countryside in summer, along to coast.
You can feel how much the author loves this setting.
What I'm less sure about are the paths of the characters Elio and Oliver.
Elio is a teenager at the start of this and his attitude, and obsessiveness shows it. He's immature and has a schoolboy crush. He's a bit spoiled and doesn't know how to react when things don't go his way, but he's still young and some of that can be attributed to youth.
Though it seems like maturity never really develops as the story shifts to years later and Elio still seems bitter and still absolutely in love with his childhood crush, who has since moved on, married, and has a family of his own.
I admit I'm not great with social interactions, and I'm even worse at parsing meaning and motives from stories, but it just felt off for me.