A review by rieviolet
Nuotare nel buio by Tomasz Jedrowski

emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I appreciated the setting because it focused on a time and place (Poland in the 1980s) that I am almost completely unfamiliar with and it was very interesting to be immersed in it, even if briefly.
I quite liked the narrator's voice and I think that the author was very good at handling Ludwik's emotional journey, the final chapters especially hit me right in the feels, harder than I thought they would.

However, there were some plot points that I found a little bit weird
for example, the drugged soup and the hallucinated stroll in the woods, okay I guess?!
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Also, I think that at times the language was a tad overwritten and going a bit too heavy on metaphors and similes.
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