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challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
2.0
To be perfectly honest,reading this book was a little struggle for me,so as writing this review. I didn't hate the book but I didn't like or love it either. As a reader from Southeast Asia, I might not be the target audience of this book or maybe, some things got lost in translation that it failed to capture and engaged me as much as I expected it to. I got particularly fond of reading translated works this past year and the premise of this novel really intrigued me.
The plot of this book might be more complex than how I understood it because at the end, it just felt like reading a cozy small town novel with some political undertones. I hated that it felt that way for me because I believe this book has a message or a statement that I did not fully understand. Is it really about covid? or the political demographic of Germany?
I wish I had a clear answer for that,but I don't. If anything, this book nudged me and has me thinking of reading more about the country it was from.
The plot of this book might be more complex than how I understood it because at the end, it just felt like reading a cozy small town novel with some political undertones. I hated that it felt that way for me because I believe this book has a message or a statement that I did not fully understand. Is it really about covid? or the political demographic of Germany?
I wish I had a clear answer for that,but I don't. If anything, this book nudged me and has me thinking of reading more about the country it was from.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Terminal illness, Stalking, and Pandemic/Epidemic