A review by booksonmars
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

at first i was really enjoying this because it had the same atmosphere as a sally rooney novel, where we followed these three siblings navigate their lives, tied together by this string of estrangement between themselves and their mother, as well as the shared feeling of being adrift. however, towards the latter half the interconnectedness that the book prided itself on took a more strange and confusing route. there were passages that i could not understand and i think were there to purport this eerie/close to magical realism aspect in their stories, but it was rather frustrating towards the end, especially when it felt like the author was connecting two random things together for the sake of the 'everything is connected' belief. the blurb also is a little misleading, the triplets don't actually reunite until the last 100ish pages of the book, but i loved their relationship between the distance they created for themselves. i would recommend but beware it is a length and meandering novel.