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A review by graygarrido
Love Novel by Ivana Sajko
emotional
funny
tense
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
3.5
Love Novel captures the ugliest side of love, the kind of love that is so full of resentment and old pain that it makes you want to hurt, to scream, to suffocate one another in it.
Our two unnamed protagonists blame one another for their shortcomings: one a failed actress, the other a failed Dante scholar who can’t seem to write anything. Their relationship then becomes a long series of rather unfortunate events: she becomes pregnant, he turns to alcohol, neither seem to be able to keep a job for long which leads piles and piles of debt to accumulate.
Their 2-bedroom apartment becomes their hell, unable to escape one another for even a second. Which was very much reflected in Sajko’s writing, each sentence running into the other, no breaks between paragraphs
so that it all just feels like you’re suffocating alongside them.
Our two unnamed protagonists blame one another for their shortcomings: one a failed actress, the other a failed Dante scholar who can’t seem to write anything. Their relationship then becomes a long series of rather unfortunate events: she becomes pregnant, he turns to alcohol, neither seem to be able to keep a job for long which leads piles and piles of debt to accumulate.
Their 2-bedroom apartment becomes their hell, unable to escape one another for even a second. Which was very much reflected in Sajko’s writing, each sentence running into the other, no breaks between paragraphs
so that it all just feels like you’re suffocating alongside them.