A review by indoorg1rl
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

challenging reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

Right from the start, I knew immediately that this was a book that would demand 100% of my attention. 

In 1980, Bobby Western was hired to a diving site where a plane crashed and a passenger was suspected missing. The book followed the journey of Bobby’s life from then on.

The synopsis was really an oversimplification of what it was! I had never read any other book where the plot itself was a mystery to be solved. Reading along, I kept guessing what the story was about, as it kept jumping between reality and illusion. 

This was the type of book that would mean different things to different people, and the number of theories people could formulate on what it was about could rival the stars.

In the end, I didn’t fully understand the entire story, but I’m okay with that. I’m at peace with the fact that some parts of it was written so masterfully, I wasn’t smart enough to understand it!

This was a book best enjoyed with friends. I personally will re-read this again at some point to just absorb and admire the act of vocabulary knitting that this book offers.

(Thanks to Pan Macmillan Australia for a gifted copy in exchange for an honest review)