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nimbos's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This book gathers everything I enjoy in a good read: an unreliable, morally ambiguous narrator, dark and twisted desires and religious imagery. Besides all that, it was a book that spoke so realistically about the struggles of a homosexual youth, that posed so many questions and that made me feel all the less alone in my own struggle. I found myself, as uncanny as this may sound, relating to the main character in many aspects of my journey of self-discovery.
It's medium paced and easy to read once you grasp the writing style. It is a very visual book, making up vivid pictures without becoming overly descriptive and these pictures are always filled with light, even in the most gorish descriptions, in contrast to the dire themes of the book. It is obsessive, intoxicating and erotic without ever being vulgar. It felt, overall, very sophisticated.
It's medium paced and easy to read once you grasp the writing style. It is a very visual book, making up vivid pictures without becoming overly descriptive and these pictures are always filled with light, even in the most gorish descriptions, in contrast to the dire themes of the book. It is obsessive, intoxicating and erotic without ever being vulgar. It felt, overall, very sophisticated.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Gore, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Murder, and Sexual content
Moderate: War, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming
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