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A review by bookstainedsoul
Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari
4.0
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The way the book discusses the grayness of morality and the darkness of humanity is great. The book is very well written. I love the weaving of art pieces throughout the book and the descriptions of those pieces, I think it would be great to get a special edition of the book where we can actually see what some of those pieces were envisioned to look like. I think you could spend a lot of time in this book finding threads of meaning and deciphering language from the found objects. Overall I thought the book was really well written. At times I felt the descriptions of the paintings could have been a bit more clear.
SPOILERS
While I understand the use of M and M in the letters and that is intended to be so you cannot distinguish between the two, I wish we could have gotten more clarity on the details of the relationships between C, M, and M. I wish we could have seen from their points of view the manipulation and abuse that led to C’s death.
I do wonder why Eveline/Audra created such an elaborate scheme to get revenge against max but did not do the same for mantis. Or maybe she did and we don’t get to hear about it. I wonder if mantis understood who was killing him and why when he died, as Audra made sure happened with Max. And if not, why?
The disgust I felt for max throughout this book has been overwhelming. The way he gets off on other people’s pain, delights in seeing women crumble. Then uses their pain to build himself up.
We all crave to see others as they truly are, but to deliberately manipulate vulnerability out of already hurt women and then use that vulnerability to your advantage, to advance yourself, while giving no comfort to the women who’s emotions you are using is sickening. and then to use that vulnerability to further hurt and break down those women to continue to exploit their pain…it’s nauseating. I think his lack of awareness of this behavior is also very poignant, however, I have to wonder if he is actually unaware or if he knows how disturbing his behavior is and doesn’t want to admit it.
I really liked this story, I thought the characters were for the most part, really well created. Though, I think there were times I felt some of them could have used a little more depth, especially when telling such an emotionally compelling story, i sometimes felt I would have expected to feel more emotion than I actually did.
Overall I really loved this book.
The way the book discusses the grayness of morality and the darkness of humanity is great. The book is very well written. I love the weaving of art pieces throughout the book and the descriptions of those pieces, I think it would be great to get a special edition of the book where we can actually see what some of those pieces were envisioned to look like. I think you could spend a lot of time in this book finding threads of meaning and deciphering language from the found objects. Overall I thought the book was really well written. At times I felt the descriptions of the paintings could have been a bit more clear.
SPOILERS
While I understand the use of M and M in the letters and that is intended to be so you cannot distinguish between the two, I wish we could have gotten more clarity on the details of the relationships between C, M, and M. I wish we could have seen from their points of view the manipulation and abuse that led to C’s death.
I do wonder why Eveline/Audra created such an elaborate scheme to get revenge against max but did not do the same for mantis. Or maybe she did and we don’t get to hear about it. I wonder if mantis understood who was killing him and why when he died, as Audra made sure happened with Max. And if not, why?
The disgust I felt for max throughout this book has been overwhelming. The way he gets off on other people’s pain, delights in seeing women crumble. Then uses their pain to build himself up.
We all crave to see others as they truly are, but to deliberately manipulate vulnerability out of already hurt women and then use that vulnerability to your advantage, to advance yourself, while giving no comfort to the women who’s emotions you are using is sickening. and then to use that vulnerability to further hurt and break down those women to continue to exploit their pain…it’s nauseating. I think his lack of awareness of this behavior is also very poignant, however, I have to wonder if he is actually unaware or if he knows how disturbing his behavior is and doesn’t want to admit it.
I really liked this story, I thought the characters were for the most part, really well created. Though, I think there were times I felt some of them could have used a little more depth, especially when telling such an emotionally compelling story, i sometimes felt I would have expected to feel more emotion than I actually did.
Overall I really loved this book.