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Nocturne
by Alyssa Wees
This is such a surreal, beautifully written story. Not a book to fly through quickly but a story and words to be savored.
The first half especially I was entranced by, the story has such a bleak, aching sadness to it that really pulls at your heart. Midway everything goes through a kind of hazy but significant shift and it took me a minute to settle into it. The biggest thing that bothered me throughout is the Chicago setting…I would have really preferred an unnamed place/world. The real world-ness felt like too stark a contrast to the surreal otherness of the story. Maybe that was intentional but I found it jarring in a way that kept taking me out of the story instead of being able to fully lose myself in the beautiful writing.
If you prefer fast paced, plot driven books and want to be able to analyze and make sense of everything that happens while you’re reading - this book may not be for you. If you like slipping into beautiful, lyrical writing and slowly falling through, like a surreal dream of beautiful words and feelings without needing everything to make perfect sense - then this is something you may like. I personally really enjoyed it and have added the author’s previous book to my tbr so I can read that too!
The first half especially I was entranced by, the story has such a bleak, aching sadness to it that really pulls at your heart. Midway everything goes through a kind of hazy but significant shift and it took me a minute to settle into it. The biggest thing that bothered me throughout is the Chicago setting…I would have really preferred an unnamed place/world. The real world-ness felt like too stark a contrast to the surreal otherness of the story. Maybe that was intentional but I found it jarring in a way that kept taking me out of the story instead of being able to fully lose myself in the beautiful writing.
If you prefer fast paced, plot driven books and want to be able to analyze and make sense of everything that happens while you’re reading - this book may not be for you. If you like slipping into beautiful, lyrical writing and slowly falling through, like a surreal dream of beautiful words and feelings without needing everything to make perfect sense - then this is something you may like. I personally really enjoyed it and have added the author’s previous book to my tbr so I can read that too!