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3.22 AVERAGE
3.22 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was so fucking weird but beautiful. Ultimate fever dream feeling book.
surprisingly enjoyable and wonderfully written but ultimately ridiculous. this book was infuriating at times, yes, but the ending made up for it.
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Why would a character's reality ever be best defined by sex with her ghost boyfriend?
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I liked it at first in a guilty pleasure kind of way. I'm not really someone who reads romance. I'm not big on obvious, tropey writing, but I wanted to give this one a chance. I love Thomas's character. He's a smarmy pseudo-intellectual asshole, and that's fun. He has an interesting backstory, an interesting motive, an interesting personality. He's someone I wanted to stick around with for a while. After his section is over, though (which I was hoping it wouldn't be. I kind of wanted the whole story to be told from his perspective), here comes Rachel. She's a reference librarian, and she acts like a reference librarian, which is to say that she's boring. She's brought into the story in a way that feels completely unbalanced. Thomas is fantastical, mystical, narcissistic, borderline flamboyant. Rachel is dry and has no backstory to be heard of except that she experiments with love. That's it. When you want to switch to a different character, you have to make me want to stick with this new character after tearing me away from the better one. Give me a reason to like Rachel. She could be the opposite of him. The story makes reference to them having "complementary weirdnesses." Rachel is NOT weird, no matter how much Bonnafons wants to convince us that she's weird. Is she a little serious? Yeah. Is that weird? Haha, no, it's not. What's weird is that she considers herself to be weird.
Anyway, I decided I couldn't continue when Rachel had her little outing with her very diverse group of friends, as if Bonnafons were somehow trying to make up for her two very white protagonists. Agh.
Anyway, I decided I couldn't continue when Rachel had her little outing with her very diverse group of friends, as if Bonnafons were somehow trying to make up for her two very white protagonists. Agh.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This: “There is a danger to daydreaming. It’s not that the daydream bears too little relationship to reality. It’s the opposite: the daydream can CREATE reality. It can become so powerful that it transforms the face of the world, then encounters its own image and falls in love with itself”
And also this: GHOST SEX, yes all of the ghost sex. Did I mention the GHOST SEX?
And also this: GHOST SEX, yes all of the ghost sex. Did I mention the GHOST SEX?
This book was not what I thought it was going to be. I don't even remember now what I was hoping for. What I got was an eerily erotic, poetic and moving meditation on life and love and death. I can already tell that parts of this book are going to haunt me the way Thomas haunted Rachel. There were too many unanswered questions for me to give it five stars and Dr. Moon was a little too convenient. But it was unforgettable.
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes