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A review by maxx_
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This is the kind of book that I don’t recommend unless you can handle hard topics. I have yet to read her other book A Little Life so I can’t make the comparison. But in its own way it’s like Lolita where you can the narrator is unreliable but he thinks he’s right.
This book was very frustrating with the main character Norton. Which I suppose was the point of all of it to begin with. The approach that this book has to sexual assault via the assaulter is not one I am familiar with seeing as I don’t tend read a lot of those books. But this perfectly captures how they tend to act in real life about these situations.
All love to Hanya she’s an amazing writer but I would really love to see her try her hand at something happy maybe💀💀.
This book was very frustrating with the main character Norton. Which I suppose was the point of all of it to begin with. The approach that this book has to sexual assault via the assaulter is not one I am familiar with seeing as I don’t tend read a lot of those books. But this perfectly captures how they tend to act in real life about these situations.
All love to Hanya she’s an amazing writer but I would really love to see her try her hand at something happy maybe💀💀.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence
I did add the tags for certain things and though they don’t appear in the beginning of the book they are there and they are descriptive and violent.