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serenapuang 's review for:
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Not a mystery in the traditional sense, reads more like a conversational memoir/bildungsroman by someone trying to figure out what the heck happened to them.
At one point in the book, a character named Tommy reflects that the people in charge at Hailsham always "timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly."
And I think it applies to the book too--that you're always given a piece of information just before you're ready to fully and properly understand what it means. I wish I could've gone into the book without knowing anything so I could truly have that experience, but I must've watched a booktube review of this book some time ago which put it on my TBR but also spoiled major plot points for me. It was a great read nonetheless.
At one point in the book, a character named Tommy reflects that the people in charge at Hailsham always "timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly."
And I think it applies to the book too--that you're always given a piece of information just before you're ready to fully and properly understand what it means. I wish I could've gone into the book without knowing anything so I could truly have that experience, but I must've watched a booktube review of this book some time ago which put it on my TBR but also spoiled major plot points for me. It was a great read nonetheless.