alex_roussinov

** spoiler alert ** What can I say about this book? I mean, I suck at writing reviews, so I won't try for a proper one and just give you some thoughts. This book is not for everyone I think. For me.. well I like it.. but not enough for four stars. During a big part of the book, nothing much happened. You're given memories, things that happened in the past to Kath. Her memories of being at Hailsham, and some things that came after. Now I don't mind flashbacks, but sometimes, this book gives you a flashback of the protagonist remembering something, described into detail. A flashback in a flashback in a flasback. Or maybe not that bad, but sometimes it kept me wondering when we'd get back to the past. And I love books where someone tells you their memoires. But this book, that was a bit too much of a good thing. It's only because of the last, say, quarter of the book that it's left an impression on me. And be assured, this book has gotten me thinking, and stuck with me ever since I finished the last page. Not so much as for what happened, but because of how the characters deal with it. They're told from childhood on they're made to make "donations" later in life, this is their purpose. Well fine.. but you'd expect them to struggle with this, put up a fight somehow. But they just accept it, in fact, they become proud of it. Proud to give as many donations as they can, proud to actually start becoming a donor. Even when they will eventually die from this, they're happy with that, they've "completed". I mean, wow. Just the casual and proud way these donors talk about this, and consider themselves above people like them but not donors yet.. it gets to you. It shows you that, in a way you can make people proud of anything. So I liked this book, but because the endless reminiscing can get a little boring, and if not for the ending, I wouldn't have like this book much.

2023-08-03 03:34