A review by togata
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis
dark
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Reading this book was weird because throughout reading this i felt that it was mediocre in a lot of ways but, for some reason, i still couldn't stop reading it.
I did not like any of the characters, the writing was disappointing, some sentence that were supposed to make you want to read it more made me cringe so hard because of how bad and abundant they were and the book didn't needed to be that big.
Yet i still really like this book, i don't know, i had fun reading this for some reason. Maybe it's because ive been waiting for a while a book that like feels like gossip. And this very much felt like gossip, but with like unlikeable characters (which makes it even better actually, i just love reading about insufferable people (my next read might be the secret history after this))
I did not like any of the characters, the writing was disappointing, some sentence that were supposed to make you want to read it more made me cringe so hard because of how bad and abundant they were and the book didn't needed to be that big.
Yet i still really like this book, i don't know, i had fun reading this for some reason. Maybe it's because ive been waiting for a while a book that like feels like gossip. And this very much felt like gossip, but with like unlikeable characters (which makes it even better actually, i just love reading about insufferable people (my next read might be the secret history after this))
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape and Violence