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kitten_nuisance 's review for:
To Paradise
by Hanya Yanagihara
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Things you have to be okay with going into this book:
-Ambiguous endings
-Whiplash among three shorter novels, which I for a long time thought were just three novels Yanagihara had started to write, but now that I've finished it and may be under Stockholm Syndrome by the book, I am feeling more the sense that they go together
-Characters that I think a lot of people would describe as "passive" and that "don't DO anything," though I had some thoughts on how that was coded, and on how such humans do exist and can be represented in fiction, so I found it endearing and personal when others might find it infuriating?
I didn't want to look anything up after I got my first WTF of the novel, and if I had done so, I might have quit, but I'm glad I didn't, and once again this author has left me sobbing.
-Ambiguous endings
-Whiplash among three shorter novels, which I for a long time thought were just three novels Yanagihara had started to write, but now that I've finished it and may be under Stockholm Syndrome by the book, I am feeling more the sense that they go together
-Characters that I think a lot of people would describe as "passive" and that "don't DO anything," though I had some thoughts on how that was coded, and on how such humans do exist and can be represented in fiction, so I found it endearing and personal when others might find it infuriating?
I didn't want to look anything up after I got my first WTF of the novel, and if I had done so, I might have quit, but I'm glad I didn't, and once again this author has left me sobbing.
Content Warnings
adoption