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lamija822's review
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, War, Rape, and Genocide
laurelinwonder's review
5.0
This fast paced, difficult to read (content-wise) book is perhaps best summed up by the San Francisco Chronicle as "Beautiful, brutal, and unsettling until the end... Marcom's seamless, ethereal prose is suffused with raw emotion; there is heartbreak on every page, but also hope." I don't usually agree with quotes but on the cover of the book, but in this case, I couldn't say it any better. This book made me deeply uncomfortable, and that is saying a lot, very few things in this world do this for me. I was thankful for the driving force of the prose that at least made the discomfort fly by. This unreliable (in my opinion) narrator was not someone I could relate with, nor could I fully feel sorry for him, or fully hate him. This is a difficult thing, and certainly, throughout the entire book, I wondered how Marcom had pulled this off. Reminiscent of Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, I had a hard time pinning down how I felt. This is a difficult book that is well worth the read.
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