Even Though I Knew the End
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Beschreibung
Beiträge
Was eine schöne, melancholische Geschichte.
With a supernatural criminal case and a heartwarming (and heartbreaking) love story at its center and set in a gourgously described 40s Chicago, this novella offers noir at its best - dark, at times hilariously funny and utterly captivating.
3,5 Es ist irgendwie schwer das Buch zu beschreiben. Man wird direkt in die Handlung reingeworfen und man hat zunächst absolut keine Ahnung was abgeht. Das sortiert sich nach einer Weile, ist aber nicht unbedingt ein Erzählelement, was ich mag. Wer Supernatural und lesbian love storys à la Evelyn Hugo mag, ist hier sehr gut bedient. Wer kein Vorwissen zu supernaturalichen Elementen (Dämonen, Erz-Engel, Besessenheit durch Engel/Dämonen) hat, wird wahrscheinlich Schwierigkeiten haben, der Story direkt folgen zu können. Ein Hoch auf Sam und Dean Winchester, die mich seit Jahrzehnten darauf vorbereitet haben
Tropes: – adult sapphic – deal with the devil SUPERNATURAL style (seriously, there are some parallels that made my fangirl heart beat faster) – femme fatale – 1940s noir vibe – murder mystery/supernatural PI This book is so underrated, I can‘t believe it! Why does no one talk about this?! First of all, there is the vibe – it’s a vibe kind of book. The plot takes place in 1941 in Chicago. Reading this feels like watching a film noir. The book is 133 pages long and in all honesty I did not expect this to get to me as emotionally as it did. Other book tell you nothing in 133 pages, ’Even though I knew the end‘ tells you EVERYTHING. This is so astonishingly beautiful, so heartfelt, so bittersweet, I loved every second of it. Actually after finishing it, I wanted to start all over again. The story is about Helen, our protagonist, who is a medium, exiled by the secret society that raised her, and now works as a PI. In order to get her soul back she has to track down a serial killer. What is kind of interesting in my opinion is, eventhough this story is quite short, I was so deeply invested in Helen, and in her relationship with Edith, and Edith, even her brother Teddy. TW: homophobia. This book is setted in the early 1940s and it doesn’t sugar–coat the queer–phobia of this time. As part of her investigation Helen visits an asylum, and though the story doesn‘t go into heavy detail here, these scenes are still quite haunting. 5/5⭐️ HIGHLIGHT!
Short & sweet (+heartbreaking)
Herzzerreißend schön
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Was eine schöne, melancholische Geschichte.
With a supernatural criminal case and a heartwarming (and heartbreaking) love story at its center and set in a gourgously described 40s Chicago, this novella offers noir at its best - dark, at times hilariously funny and utterly captivating.
3,5 Es ist irgendwie schwer das Buch zu beschreiben. Man wird direkt in die Handlung reingeworfen und man hat zunächst absolut keine Ahnung was abgeht. Das sortiert sich nach einer Weile, ist aber nicht unbedingt ein Erzählelement, was ich mag. Wer Supernatural und lesbian love storys à la Evelyn Hugo mag, ist hier sehr gut bedient. Wer kein Vorwissen zu supernaturalichen Elementen (Dämonen, Erz-Engel, Besessenheit durch Engel/Dämonen) hat, wird wahrscheinlich Schwierigkeiten haben, der Story direkt folgen zu können. Ein Hoch auf Sam und Dean Winchester, die mich seit Jahrzehnten darauf vorbereitet haben
Tropes: – adult sapphic – deal with the devil SUPERNATURAL style (seriously, there are some parallels that made my fangirl heart beat faster) – femme fatale – 1940s noir vibe – murder mystery/supernatural PI This book is so underrated, I can‘t believe it! Why does no one talk about this?! First of all, there is the vibe – it’s a vibe kind of book. The plot takes place in 1941 in Chicago. Reading this feels like watching a film noir. The book is 133 pages long and in all honesty I did not expect this to get to me as emotionally as it did. Other book tell you nothing in 133 pages, ’Even though I knew the end‘ tells you EVERYTHING. This is so astonishingly beautiful, so heartfelt, so bittersweet, I loved every second of it. Actually after finishing it, I wanted to start all over again. The story is about Helen, our protagonist, who is a medium, exiled by the secret society that raised her, and now works as a PI. In order to get her soul back she has to track down a serial killer. What is kind of interesting in my opinion is, eventhough this story is quite short, I was so deeply invested in Helen, and in her relationship with Edith, and Edith, even her brother Teddy. TW: homophobia. This book is setted in the early 1940s and it doesn’t sugar–coat the queer–phobia of this time. As part of her investigation Helen visits an asylum, and though the story doesn‘t go into heavy detail here, these scenes are still quite haunting. 5/5⭐️ HIGHLIGHT!