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A review by amieis
Pan: A Novel by Michael Clune
3.0
Nick is a 15 year old high school kid living with his single dad, in a fairly deprived housing estate, after being sent there by his mother. He suddenly starts experiencing panic attacks where he becomes hyperaware of his surroundings. After doing some research in the school library with the girl he fancies, he becomes convinced that the Greek god Pan has taken up residence in his body.
I really wish I'd enjoyed this more than I did. The premise was really attractive and the cover is absolutely everything, but by the end I was just skimming through to get it finished. The first part of the book was really intriguing and the author has done a spectacular job of describing panic attacks. It really impressed me how it seemed like Michael Clune reached inside my own brain and put down in words how it really feels when you're stuck inside that anxiety spiral. The second half however became just a wild, tripped fever dream that felt almost impossible to follow. It all just got a bit crazy and there didnt really feel like there was cohesion between some of the chapters. I've read plenty of books that are written in a similar stream of consciousness style as this and loved them, but I really just couldn't get behind this one in the end.
You can see that the author really has put heart and sould into this book and the language he writes in is truly beautiful, which just disappoints me even more that I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to.
I really wish I'd enjoyed this more than I did. The premise was really attractive and the cover is absolutely everything, but by the end I was just skimming through to get it finished. The first part of the book was really intriguing and the author has done a spectacular job of describing panic attacks. It really impressed me how it seemed like Michael Clune reached inside my own brain and put down in words how it really feels when you're stuck inside that anxiety spiral. The second half however became just a wild, tripped fever dream that felt almost impossible to follow. It all just got a bit crazy and there didnt really feel like there was cohesion between some of the chapters. I've read plenty of books that are written in a similar stream of consciousness style as this and loved them, but I really just couldn't get behind this one in the end.
You can see that the author really has put heart and sould into this book and the language he writes in is truly beautiful, which just disappoints me even more that I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to.