ameliatrnr's reviews
8 reviews

Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

3.0

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

East is East by Ayub Khan-Din

reflective medium-paced

2.5

This is a Chair by Caryl Churchill

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

at first I found the lack of quotation marks for dialogue a bit jarring, but I really liked how this was written, and it made the dialogue feel so much more realistic !!

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

personally wasn’t a fan of the writing style, for me it felt like it was just a self-insert of the author as a vampire

I feel like this had so many missed opportunities - there were so many instances where lydia was so close to acting on her impulses, that it felt like it was building up to something, only for it to fall flat and happen only in the last ten pages of the book… really wasn’t a horror at all, and nothing really happens until the last pages

(big up margate tho)