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To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
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This book is beautifully written - there are some incredible sentences, as strange as that is to say - but it is also confusing structurally. I think I understand the effort here, but it just does not feel finished. Most of the time, it feels like 3 separate books, and I don't think I ever came to truly understand why they were all put together. The links are weak, if there are meant to be any at all.
The stories are good, but they end abruptly and without any sort of satisfaction in the resolution. That can be intentional, of course, and is likely what the author was going for here, but each book felt unfinished to me in a way that was a disservice to the characters. I also found it took me until about halfway through each story to really get into it, so it increased my disappointment then when things felt unfinished in the conclusion. Overall, and I really hate to say this, it felt like a draft to me. I had moments I liked, moments I loved, moments I hated. I really tried to love it, but I just will settle at I liked it, though there's a part of me that wants to say it was just OK.
This book is beautifully written - there are some incredible sentences, as strange as that is to say - but it is also confusing structurally. I think I understand the effort here, but it just does not feel finished. Most of the time, it feels like 3 separate books, and I don't think I ever came to truly understand why they were all put together. The links are weak, if there are meant to be any at all.
The stories are good, but they end abruptly and without any sort of satisfaction in the resolution. That can be intentional, of course, and is likely what the author was going for here, but each book felt unfinished to me in a way that was a disservice to the characters. I also found it took me until about halfway through each story to really get into it, so it increased my disappointment then when things felt unfinished in the conclusion. Overall, and I really hate to say this, it felt like a draft to me. I had moments I liked, moments I loved, moments I hated. I really tried to love it, but I just will settle at I liked it, though there's a part of me that wants to say it was just OK.