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A review by elzasbokhylla
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
4.0
This book is part of my 2015 reading challenge
I don’t know where to start with this review. This book was not just horrifying, but also depressing and very dark in a good way, if that makes any sense. This is my first book written by Émile Zola and I really was impressed.
This book is about Therese, who is stuck in a loveless marriage with her cousin and takes on a lover, her husband’s friend, Laurent. Together they kill her husband so they can live happily ever after together. What they didn’t expect was the guilt of their crime.
In the beginning of the story Therese and Laurent is passionately in love and it is extremely interesting to see how their strong and passionate love turns into something ugly and dark the longer the story continuous. It isn’t first after they murder of the husband the real horror story begins. This story is about what guilt can do to the human psyche.
This is not a murder mystery this is a psychological drama where you as a reader slowly go mad alongside the characters.
Zola is an amazing writer! I was hooked from the start. I do recommend this book to all that love to read classics.
More book reviews here: Elzas book reviews
I don’t know where to start with this review. This book was not just horrifying, but also depressing and very dark in a good way, if that makes any sense. This is my first book written by Émile Zola and I really was impressed.
This book is about Therese, who is stuck in a loveless marriage with her cousin and takes on a lover, her husband’s friend, Laurent. Together they kill her husband so they can live happily ever after together. What they didn’t expect was the guilt of their crime.
In the beginning of the story Therese and Laurent is passionately in love and it is extremely interesting to see how their strong and passionate love turns into something ugly and dark the longer the story continuous. It isn’t first after they murder of the husband the real horror story begins. This story is about what guilt can do to the human psyche.
This is not a murder mystery this is a psychological drama where you as a reader slowly go mad alongside the characters.
Zola is an amazing writer! I was hooked from the start. I do recommend this book to all that love to read classics.
More book reviews here: Elzas book reviews