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readingoccasionally89's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Graphic: Infidelity, Biphobia, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Incest
leon_mhs's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
3.25
Moderate: Incest
addanumlaut's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Moderate: Incest
lennorb's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- 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
3.0
The writing style is distinctively Aciman and it’s an easy holiday read for the most part which I enjoyed.
However, there were a lot of things that I didn’t like. Aciman seems to be suggesting that the only way love can exist is obsessively, instantly and with massive power (and age) imbalances. This makes sense in the original due to Elio’s age but here it was just bizarre. The sex scenes made me feel yuck due to the above and the constant incest innuendo (????). The characters were often melodramatic and sleazy and the few female characters were just objectified with little substance.
It retains the essence of Call Me By Your Name but didn’t succeed in the way the original did
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Sexual content
luxxltyd's review against another edition
- 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
2.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, and Infidelity
Minor: Incest
gritsgritsgrits's review against another edition
- 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
2.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Incest, and Adult/minor relationship
kaitlynfriedman's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
3.25
Moderate: Death of parent and Incest
mj_86's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Graphic: Incest and Sexual content
ericispublius's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Incest
Moderate: Antisemitism and Infidelity
Minor: Death of parent and Dementia
bluemoon8's review against another edition
2.0
But the first part with Elio's dad and the girl from the train irked me in the worst possible way. Everything from the age difference between the father and the girl he meets which begins to show as some kind of fascination from the author to the casual mention of incest displeased me. i mean wtf andré.
The whole variations around the theme of piano were one of the most elaborate part of the book, but mostly, it felt as an endless and pointless rambling about vain emotions.
The final reunion of Elio and Oliver was epic because of how flat it felt.
Overall, "Find me" reads like a hybrid of a YA pick me and long-winded banalities about love, forced onto the barest thread of a plot.
This is so far away from the nuanced yet vivid depiction of a first love from "Call me by your name" that the disappointment probably causes me to be harsher than I would have been if I hadn't read that first novel.
Minor: Incest