This isn’t a review. I just NEED to vent before I go insane. I would also like to apologize if I make mistakes. English isn’t my first language and I’m too heated at the moment to think the correct words.
First of all, I can’t believe I read all thousand pages of that garbage. I think it should be classified as emotional abuse from the author, because man wtf? I’m pissed that I even read it because the author uses real-life subjects, and very VERY heavy topics just to make the reader suffer to the point where I felt like she didn’t care about real people and trivialized those topics. I know the whole point of the book was to make readers suffer, but did the author ever think for a split second that people going through what the characters go through could read that and affect them negatively? If I had read this when I was 16, heavily depressed, I would’ve imitated some things that appear in the book.
Maybe it’s because as I grow up, living a happy life and enjoying it, I don’t want that big of a traumatizing read in my life, or I don’t know the reason, but I feel like it isn’t a good book for people to claim it as a masterpiece and recommend. I think it’s very well-written, and very fast to read, but it’s the hardest book I’ve ever read. I feel like the author hated the main character but loved him at the same time, cause that man couldn’t catch a break.
I don’t even think it’s realistic, because I don’t think anyone goes through that amount of trauma in the real world we’re living in. And, if they do, man, do I feel sorry for them, because it is brutal.
The edition I read has 1008 pages, and around page 500 I felt the switch from “damn, this is a sad read” to “man, she is carelessly talking about serious issues just to traumatize her readers”, and I think it’s not cool. The last big incident in the book comes so out of left field that felt forced and, again, a way to say to the readers “suck it, they are going to be miserable because I want you to suffer while reading my book”.
The only thing I can say is that I hate the book, I don’t understand how some people say it’s their favorite book, I don’t think the author is a good writer and I’m definitely not reading her work ever again.
by CarangiBooks