A review by vbarrett17
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
1.0
The only reason I am even giving this book one star instead of zero is because I enjoyed the audiobook narrator...other than that, I did not enjoy the story.
The novel is definitely character driven, but there is zero character development in any of the characters, and the plot is very dull/non-existent. Instead of facing their trauma and learning from their mistakes, they would just keep making the same exact decisions and sometimes even increase their destructive behavior. They would consistently use the excuse of drunkenness as the reason why they made bad decisions rather than admit to the fact that being drunk 24/7 in order to ignore their problems is probably not the best idea
The novel is definitely character driven, but there is zero character development in any of the characters, and the plot is very dull/non-existent. Instead of facing their trauma and learning from their mistakes, they would just keep making the same exact decisions and sometimes even increase their destructive behavior. They would consistently use the excuse of drunkenness as the reason why they made bad decisions rather than admit to the fact that being drunk 24/7 in order to ignore their problems is probably not the best idea