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This was interesting! Whatever I had expected from a sequel (and I really hadn't expected a lot. Not because I thought it would fail, but because I couldn't think of any way to continue the story of the first book), this was not it!
But I really enjoyed this book! I see it as a story that gives us updates on all the known characters' lives. This book isn't necessary in the sense that it answers any open questions or concludes the story – Call Me by Your Name still works as a stand-alone book. But Find Me does expand the universe Aciman has created (without ruining it) and is a feast for my sappy heart.
What a journey! When I heard this book would be about Lyra some years after the original trilogy, I didn't expect at all what I eventually got to read!
I loved how this wasn't just some other adventure happening to Lyra. There were characters from both La Belle Sauvage and His Dark Materials whose significance I only found out about in this book where they got their own plot lines, bundled up wonderfully into a thrilling story!
But damn that cliffhanger!
Precise rating: 2.5 ⭐
This book annoys the heck out of me! It wasn't boring even once. I got through it very smoothly.
And at the same time, I didn't really care a lot about any of the characters. The story felt chaotic and uncertain. As if Wells didn't see the golden thread himself. There was a proper ending, but the way there seemed very rocky.
I also don't like Wells' writing style. It was fluctuating a lot between beautiful and diary entry that wasn't meant to be published.
Urgh, but it's still hard to give it only 2.5 stars!
A very funny book if you like languages or Dana or both. I was looked at weirdly in the metro a couple of times because I had to grin so much.
Precise rating: 3.5 ⭐
Yeah, well, I hope my life at no point will be as unfulfilling and depressingly frustrating as Paul's in this book.
Precise rating: 3.5 ⭐️
The whole book feels like setup for the very last scene, which makes it all seem pointless. I'm also sure that was intentional by Yanagihara. Perina wrote his memoires to defend himself, so one could think he wrote all that setup to deflect from what ultimately happened. Or to get the reader on his side—which would've been a pretty lousy attempt anyway since Perina seemed unlikeable from the start. Yanagihara did manage to shock me with the ending, though. And, knowing her other two books, I feel like she knew exactly what she was doing at every point in the story, and from that perspective I really appreciate it.In the end, this book didn't even come close to A Little Life and To Paradise (apart from the writing, which was very beautiful as usual), but that has mostly to do with my personal preferences and not the obejctive quality of the book (as far as I can judge the latter anyway
While I could only manage a quarter of the book on my first try, on my second I got through it and I'm happy I gave it a second chance!
To understand how I feel about this book, one only has to read this review. “[...] because I was bored BUT I WAS JUST SO GOD DAMN INTERESTED.” Exactly my experience!
Precise rating: 4.5 ⭐
I'll admit, I'm a sucker for gay romance (duh). So if that's part of your book, you won't have a hard time making me like it.
Gave up at 29%.
First-Rate Material
3.5⭐
A Magnificent Spread
3⭐
A Summer Night's Kiss
2⭐
Two's Family
2.5⭐
The Time of the Large Star
1.5⭐
Poochie
1⭐