I just finished reading the last novel of the Neopolitan Series. And there are quite a few things that bothered me. The first part is the length of the novel. It didn’t not need to be 473 pages long! 😭 The second part is about Immacolata’s sickness and death. I didn’t really care about it or her. She was a terrible mother to Elena throughout her life. After Immacolata passed away, she wasn’t mentioned again…the only thing that was mentioned about her was the bracelet that Elena admired. The third part that bothered me was Nino Sarratore—why was he even in this novel? He is a desperate womanizer who uses women to achieve success!!! Lila knows it, Elena knows it, other characters know it and the audience knows it! I found his character to be really annoying in this concluding saga. Immacolata and Nino did not progress the story foreward. The fourth part that bothered me was Elsa’s relationship with Genarro Cerullo (Lila’s and Stefano Cerraci’s son). It was incredibly inappropriate! Elena Ferrante explicitly wrote that Elsa was 15 and Genarro was 24…an adult and a minor being in a relationship is a no-no…and Elena Ferrante made her main character seem to be nonchalant about it after a little while. All I wanted to read about was Elena’s and Lila’s friendship: how it collided, how it mended and how it broke again. I wanted this novel to focus on their friendship, their relationships with their children and their separate lives. This was my least favorite novel out of the entire series! 😕
by marvelousmaggie96