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A review by jaslyn_
Devotion by Hannah Kent
4.0
good lord I was seriously torn between giving this either 4 or 5 stars
There's so much to say about this. First of all THE PROSE. God it was even more gorgeous than my expectations leading into this. Like one of those paintings you stare at in the museum wondering how you can go on living after witnessing something THIS beautiful. Who on earth starts a book with THAT banger of a stanza and expects us not to believe it'll get even more beautiful? (spoiler: it does lol)
The romance between the two was just heartsquishingly gorgeous to read but frankly, as much as it was beautiful to read I had to suspend my own disbelief at some points and wonder aloud whether two under-18 year old girls would say this kinda stuff to one another (I'd like to put my head where your hands have been) yea c'mon
I really did not want to dock a star but I had to because I was a little heartbroken by the plot and some aspects of Hanne's intertwined personality/facet of being with nature felt a bit repetitive. Yea I know she communes with the earth and trees and the water and it's all pretty to read the first time through but this is fleshed out VERY repetitively throughout the novel right up until the end
Speaking of which, I wish the end was expanded on a bit more, as satisfying as it was.
NO REGRETS READING THIS GODDDDDD the PROSE MADE UP FOR EVERYTHING
There's so much to say about this. First of all THE PROSE. God it was even more gorgeous than my expectations leading into this. Like one of those paintings you stare at in the museum wondering how you can go on living after witnessing something THIS beautiful. Who on earth starts a book with THAT banger of a stanza and expects us not to believe it'll get even more beautiful? (spoiler: it does lol)
The romance between the two was just heartsquishingly gorgeous to read but frankly, as much as it was beautiful to read I had to suspend my own disbelief at some points and wonder aloud whether two under-18 year old girls would say this kinda stuff to one another (I'd like to put my head where your hands have been) yea c'mon
I really did not want to dock a star but I had to because I was a little heartbroken by the plot and some aspects of Hanne's intertwined personality/facet of being with nature felt a bit repetitive. Yea I know she communes with the earth and trees and the water and it's all pretty to read the first time through but this is fleshed out VERY repetitively throughout the novel right up until the end
Speaking of which, I wish the end was expanded on a bit more, as satisfying as it was.
NO REGRETS READING THIS GODDDDDD the PROSE MADE UP FOR EVERYTHING