A review by giselav
A Confissão da Leoa by Mia Couto
2.0
Such a frustrating read. This book has almost no plot to speak of. You could honestly sum everything that happened in detail in less than a page.
Most of the book is composed with vague, poetic sentences that are very beautiful, yes, but give you absolutely no information whatsoever. I don't mean a couple of beautiful sentences every now and then, but this book is nothing but vague meaningless statement after vague meaningless statement. It goes nowhere! It's so slow as well and the story isn't even that interesting.
It doesn't help that the characters all have different ideas on what's happening but you're not actually sure what is real and what isn't at any point in time. I'm pretty sure that's what Couto intended, but added to everything else it just made for an even more annoying read.
The only mildly exciting part was near the end, but it soon went back to the same sort of vague-ing and bullshitting about. Goddamn. I had to force myself to finish this book the whole time.
Most of the book is composed with vague, poetic sentences that are very beautiful, yes, but give you absolutely no information whatsoever. I don't mean a couple of beautiful sentences every now and then, but this book is nothing but vague meaningless statement after vague meaningless statement. It goes nowhere! It's so slow as well and the story isn't even that interesting.
It doesn't help that the characters all have different ideas on what's happening but you're not actually sure what is real and what isn't at any point in time. I'm pretty sure that's what Couto intended, but added to everything else it just made for an even more annoying read.
The only mildly exciting part was near the end, but it soon went back to the same sort of vague-ing and bullshitting about. Goddamn. I had to force myself to finish this book the whole time.