City of Dreams: A Novel (City, 2)
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[3.75] First of all, Don Winslow is one of my all time favourite authors and I won’t ever not pick up one of his releases because his style and the gut-heart-organ-wrenching stories he weaves with his characters are just perfect for me. I never know what happens next and that is a unique selling point for an adhd-brain who has read too many stories not to see where some plotlines are going. This installment, loosely seen as a retelling of the odyssee (which is so fascinating to me, honestly, because you can see it, but he doesn’t hit you in the face with it every other page), does suffer under second book in a trilogy syndrome somehow. I know, it does fit the odyssee retelling part again, because a lot of that is waiting and suffering, too, but while I imagined this to pick up right where we left off not only in terms of plot (which he did) but also in regard to tension, it fell a little bit short for me. Where I was heartwrenchingly involved in the plot of the first book, not knowing which character I hope gets his HEA and which doesn’t deserve it (let’s be honest, none of them do, but what are we if not absolutely biased as readers), this book left me hanging dry a bit because while I was intrigued, I wasn’t on the edge of my seat, waiting for the next blow to fall and push all of the characters closer to their own personal misery. It's still a good book, for sure! And it does leave me incredibly anxious for the pain waiting in the final instalment of this series, because that’s going to be pure agony and I know it. But there was just this bit of a spark missing that I love so much about Don Winslow’s other works.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
[3.75] First of all, Don Winslow is one of my all time favourite authors and I won’t ever not pick up one of his releases because his style and the gut-heart-organ-wrenching stories he weaves with his characters are just perfect for me. I never know what happens next and that is a unique selling point for an adhd-brain who has read too many stories not to see where some plotlines are going. This installment, loosely seen as a retelling of the odyssee (which is so fascinating to me, honestly, because you can see it, but he doesn’t hit you in the face with it every other page), does suffer under second book in a trilogy syndrome somehow. I know, it does fit the odyssee retelling part again, because a lot of that is waiting and suffering, too, but while I imagined this to pick up right where we left off not only in terms of plot (which he did) but also in regard to tension, it fell a little bit short for me. Where I was heartwrenchingly involved in the plot of the first book, not knowing which character I hope gets his HEA and which doesn’t deserve it (let’s be honest, none of them do, but what are we if not absolutely biased as readers), this book left me hanging dry a bit because while I was intrigued, I wasn’t on the edge of my seat, waiting for the next blow to fall and push all of the characters closer to their own personal misery. It's still a good book, for sure! And it does leave me incredibly anxious for the pain waiting in the final instalment of this series, because that’s going to be pure agony and I know it. But there was just this bit of a spark missing that I love so much about Don Winslow’s other works.