Another one of those “wtf did i just read” books.
The plot started out slow, but the disorientation of being dropped into a world where no explanations are given outright makes the initial discovery process quite engaging. By the middle of the book, enough clues were given and I was emotionally invested in the plot and the characters. The pages just flew by as I braced myself for an amazing reveal… which never came. The “resolution” was so simplistic that I was sure there was more to it that would be revealed at the end, but alas, it was just as it was.
The blurb had a captivating hook that the book explores “what does it mean to love?”. I felt I learned more about love from a YA book (Eleanor & Park) than I did from this winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
I should’ve grounded my expectations given that I had read “The Vegetarian”, another “wtf did I just read” book which had also won the Nobel.