morebedsidebooks's review against another edition
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
“There are no simple friends.”
Inspired in part by another reflective novel Lie with Me, Valérie Perrin crafted Three a lengthy tome of three childhood friends over decades and the haunting disappearance of an 18-year-old girl they knew. Yet, told with an interesting narrator named Virginie. A journalist who seemingly knows everything about the three and begs the question of how. Another mystery that there is no simple way to write about. Keeping this as a reveal is a choice that is very open to critique.
Further an interesting question in Three is about people’s stories. How they are turned into mass media and by who. Whether culled in the process of reporting, absorbed into entertainment by true crime, or transformed by literature. Three seems particularly aware of the media around us, too, even having its own sort of playlist with music becoming an indelible part heightening experience. Yet in general, this fiction book can at times feel too long. (Available translated by Hildegarde Serle the audiobook narrated by Elisabeth Lagelée is likewise slow.) It’s a work caught up in literary devices, excessive detail or bound in tidy conclusions. The latter life rarely offers. But perhaps sometimes as it’s put “Novels are for writing what one is incapable of doing in real life.”
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Dysphoria, Abandonment, Cancer, Misogyny, Transphobia, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Death
Minor: Animal death, Car accident, and Abortion
anna_pizzichidilibri's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Cancer
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