elidhios's review against another edition
3.0
Estoy dividida, por una parte la mirada de la protagonista sobre el duelo por la pérdida de su madre me parecio muy real (el estar teniendo un diálogo interno con la persona que perdiste) y el final es una cosa espectacular, por otro la mina es infumable y solo habla de tipos y de follar (que no hay nada malo) solo que no hay nada más que eso. Estoy super a favor de personajes "moralmente malos" o que caen mal, pero le faltó profundidad al resto de la trama.
Tiene su público, solo que no creo que yo sea parte.
Tiene su público, solo que no creo que yo sea parte.
valeriadominguez's review against another edition
1.0
Dnf 64% Aun siendo un libro muy corto, se me hizo infinito y difícil de leer, desde un principio no me estaba enganchando, pero aún si había decido darle una oportunidad, pero no puedo más. Es aburrido, y justo cuando pienso que va a tocar más el tema de la muerte de su madre, se pone hablar otra vez, de repente de hombres, sexo y alcohol. La protagonista es insoportable.
robinbirdsong's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to read this book because it's set in Catalonia, and because it features a woman my age who has lost her mother. But I found her story shallow, steeped in privilege that it doesn't seem the author is examining or questioning. The grief is profound, yes, and complicated because of her complicated relationship with her mother, but it only seems to motivate her to further inanities rather than deeper reflection.
mari_teran's review against another edition
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
2.25
luciagr's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
floriflor1's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-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? No
3.5
tddonoso's review against another edition
reflective
sad
fast-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
3.0
rayuelita's review against another edition
2.0
Puf. Hay cosas que me gustan porque se parecen demasiado a mi vida. Pero vaya coñazo. Ya no sabía ni de qué tíos estaba hablando. Y qué pereza. Hubiese reducido el libro a 10 páginas y ya.
octavia_cade's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
"This too shall pass"... except some things don't, do they. Blanca herself admits this: she's a middle-aged woman and her mother has just died, and for the rest of her life she'll be motherless. That's hard for her to encompass, in the midst of recent and profound grief, and so Blanca packs up her family and various hangers-on and goes to spend time in a holiday town, in order to try and get over the worst of it.
It's a lot more lighthearted than it sounds, without actually undermining that state of grief. It helps that Blanca is not always sympathetic. She has a painfully clear-eyed view of life, albeit with some blind spots where she herself is concerned, and her take-no-bullshit attitude, punctuated by bouts of indolent sex with both an ex-husband, and with someone else's current husband, is partly a coping mechanism, and partly, I think, a result of a latent self-centredness. But that's not the right word, exactly. It's enjoyment of life as a survival mechanism, I think, and there's a sunshiny gloss over all of this, like one of those find-yourself Mediterranean stories that are just this side of syrupy, the modern fairy tale for women past the age of princesses. And like those stories, it's a very easy book to swallow, with lovely evocative prose... but my lasting impression is of the gloss, rather than the grief.
It's a lot more lighthearted than it sounds, without actually undermining that state of grief. It helps that Blanca is not always sympathetic. She has a painfully clear-eyed view of life, albeit with some blind spots where she herself is concerned, and her take-no-bullshit attitude, punctuated by bouts of indolent sex with both an ex-husband, and with someone else's current husband, is partly a coping mechanism, and partly, I think, a result of a latent self-centredness. But that's not the right word, exactly. It's enjoyment of life as a survival mechanism, I think, and there's a sunshiny gloss over all of this, like one of those find-yourself Mediterranean stories that are just this side of syrupy, the modern fairy tale for women past the age of princesses. And like those stories, it's a very easy book to swallow, with lovely evocative prose... but my lasting impression is of the gloss, rather than the grief.
agingerg's review against another edition
3.0
Overall a 2 but there were some descriptions of a mind in grief that were a 5.