Adeline
Literary fiction translated from Swedish, follows a Swedish writer on holiday in Spain who encounters a local man, discovering his weird past that involves meeting a maimed nun.
My first book by Lina Wolff this was overall a good reading experience. I wasn’t expecting the atmosphere to be that surreal, absurd and twisted, with a melodramatic and slight darkly humorous tone to it. The writing was sharp and evocative with some beautiful turn of phrases.
The characters were compelling to read but in a train wrecks and unlikeable sort of way. We follow three points of view but the way it was written made the pacing quite chaotic with some parts that felt a bit long and others too short. Despite that it kind of parallel what life is essentially and it still felt like a page turner though I don’t really saw any horror or mystery tension
The author approached various themes throughout this book like good/evil, actions/consequences, punishment/retribution, repentance, lust for life, morality, repression, nihilism, illness, social media and television as a tool etc etc
Despite that there was something lacking for me (not caring for the characters, not enough emotional pull? ), and the pacing wasn’t my favourite thing because it took me a bit out of the story so I had to knock down a star.
Overall a good book and I’m looking forward to read her next book on my physical tbr.
Literary fiction translated from Swedish, follows a Swedish writer on holiday in Spain who encounters a local man, discovering his weird past that involves meeting a maimed nun.
My first book by Lina Wolff this was overall a good reading experience. I wasn’t expecting the atmosphere to be that surreal, absurd and twisted, with a melodramatic and slight darkly humorous tone to it. The writing was sharp and evocative with some beautiful turn of phrases.
The characters were compelling to read but in a train wrecks and unlikeable sort of way. We follow three points of view but the way it was written made the pacing quite chaotic with some parts that felt a bit long and others too short. Despite that it kind of parallel what life is essentially and it still felt like a page turner though I don’t really saw any horror or mystery tension
The author approached various themes throughout this book like good/evil, actions/consequences, punishment/retribution, repentance, lust for life, morality, repression, nihilism, illness, social media and television as a tool etc etc
Despite that there was something lacking for me (not caring for the characters, not enough emotional pull? ), and the pacing wasn’t my favourite thing because it took me a bit out of the story so I had to knock down a star.
Overall a good book and I’m looking forward to read her next book on my physical tbr.