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juli_mod's review against another edition
4.0
DAS IST KEIN LIEBESROMAN! Das einmal klargestellt, ist das Buch alles Mögliche: ein Anti-Liebesroman, Gesellschaftskritik, Psychogramm, Poesie oder Beobachtung einer Beziehung, die mit vollem Karacho gegen eine Wand rennt.
Obwohl der Roman bezaubernd geschrieben (und übersetzt) ist, ist er kein Lesegenuss. Zu trist ist der Blick auf die „Liebenden“, zu erschöpfend die Bestandsaufnahme der korrupten Gesellschaft.
„Liebesroman“ fordert die Leser*innen heraus und zwingt sie den Protagonisten in die Spirale der grausamen Auswegslosigkeit zu folgen.
Kritikpunkt: ich blieb distanziert, habe das Scheitern eher mit Interesse als mit Anteilnahme verfolgt.
Obwohl der Roman bezaubernd geschrieben (und übersetzt) ist, ist er kein Lesegenuss. Zu trist ist der Blick auf die „Liebenden“, zu erschöpfend die Bestandsaufnahme der korrupten Gesellschaft.
„Liebesroman“ fordert die Leser*innen heraus und zwingt sie den Protagonisten in die Spirale der grausamen Auswegslosigkeit zu folgen.
Kritikpunkt: ich blieb distanziert, habe das Scheitern eher mit Interesse als mit Anteilnahme verfolgt.
amandaym's review against another edition
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
loved that they were both insufferable
jpyper's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
nstew16's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship
eunicek82's review against another edition
challenging
dark
4.0
This was a demanding book despite its short length. It was quite suffocating, which I think was the point. I’m very impressed by both the writing and the translation but I think the content was a bit too “ugly” for it to come out as a top read for me.
0lli_e's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
laurorourke's review against another edition
4.0
“As of tomorrow, the weather is changing. A new civil war is starting. He'll be needing a helmet and a bulletproof vest, because now he'll be blamed for everything again.”
graygarrido's review against another edition
emotional
funny
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Love Novel captures the ugliest side of love, the kind of love that is so full of resentment and old pain that it makes you want to hurt, to scream, to suffocate one another in it.
Our two unnamed protagonists blame one another for their shortcomings: one a failed actress, the other a failed Dante scholar who can’t seem to write anything. Their relationship then becomes a long series of rather unfortunate events: she becomes pregnant, he turns to alcohol, neither seem to be able to keep a job for long which leads piles and piles of debt to accumulate.
Their 2-bedroom apartment becomes their hell, unable to escape one another for even a second. Which was very much reflected in Sajko’s writing, each sentence running into the other, no breaks between paragraphs
so that it all just feels like you’re suffocating alongside them.
Our two unnamed protagonists blame one another for their shortcomings: one a failed actress, the other a failed Dante scholar who can’t seem to write anything. Their relationship then becomes a long series of rather unfortunate events: she becomes pregnant, he turns to alcohol, neither seem to be able to keep a job for long which leads piles and piles of debt to accumulate.
Their 2-bedroom apartment becomes their hell, unable to escape one another for even a second. Which was very much reflected in Sajko’s writing, each sentence running into the other, no breaks between paragraphs
so that it all just feels like you’re suffocating alongside them.