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maess's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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stevia333k's review

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adventurous dark emotional sad

Strong character development? Yes

4.0

Let's just say on somethings that my taste hasn't been good. Like I read a book review on Goodreads about "the bookseller's boyfriend" that pointed out so many negative aspects of that book which I agree with but hadn't caught on to & my review was like this book is cozy this book is blah blah blah, so when I give this 4 stars, know it could easily be 1 star. My distress level is chronically high. (I've learned about the day I wrote this review that the name for this level of distress is "numbing".)

I listened to this book at triple speed. There was an interview at the end that mentioned armie hammer as Oliver, so that's interesting. Also the author said they wanted a mercenary approach to writing.

This book is severely amatonormative (which is literally in the name quite) and even uses queer sense of time to say the time dimension doesn't exist. I partly read this book so I could get more insight on how amatonormativity works & also to find out what happened to these people because I thought basically everyone except Elio was dead at the end of "call me by your name".

That being said, I think this book did a better job at exploring amatonormative grief than "call me by your name" did. Like the first book felt like trying to get more historical context for a fictional book, because it just felt like there was a lot of trauma that happened. Cbmyn is a very WTF kind of book. This book felt more grounded & comfortable with the grief even though it used queer time for essentialist instead of existentialist analysis.

That being said the Holocaust is explored in this book, because the 3 men are Jewish, so the grief of losing information about the dead... Ugh, just, that's the part that made me sob my ass off.

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dniespal's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

Well, even though its supposed to be a sequel for 'Call me by your name' it isn't really that... It's still a nice book, but not what you might expect. It mostly follows other story lines and characters. Also there are some wird dialogues...
But still a nice quick read if you don't bring any expectations :)

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jackeline_romeroo's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Aciman has reeled me in. After this second installment, my heart was pulled apart but then slowly put back together.

The drama and sorrow of “ Call Me By Your Name” follows me in this book. I love the way he wrote every character and the beauty of internal dialogue in this one. I had to whip out my highlighter and start annotating because I just adore the way he writes.

If you liked the first book then I would definitely give this one a chance! If you’re looking for a perfect ending with a bow on top then you clearly didn’t read CMBYN!

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