The Incendiaries: A Novel
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"Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." --People Magazine
"The most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be...unusual and enticing ... The Incendiaries arrives at precisely the right moment." --The Washington Post
"Radiant...A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism." --New York Times Book Review
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult's acts of terrorism.
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.
Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.
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I had this book on my tbr a while before I actually read it which meant I didn't know anything about it anymore. So to anyone contemplating reading this book: do it but don't have any expectations. The plot: For a 300 pages book, you can't really expect a too complicate story with a lot of plot twists. There was definetly enough suspense to keep me reading till the end but had the book been longer it probably wouldn't have been enough. The charaters: I was really impressed by the amount of characters with different values and origin stories R.O. Kwon was able to include in such a short story. Even though I couldn't really reate to any of the characters and wasn't too invested in them something about them made me want to keep reading. The writing: The writing style in general is kind of hard to describe and I'm not really sure how I feel about it. For example every dialogue is written in reported speech which definetley took some time getting used to but it was something different that I didn't expect. The book is told in different characters point of views - something I really enjoy if it is done in the right way. And this book definetely was able to pull that of. The writing changed according to each characters individual personality so that's definetley a big part of why I liked it. In conclusion this is not one of the best books I ever read but because I didn't expect that much I was actually surprised how good it was.
Description
"Religion, politics, and love collide in this slim but powerful novel reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History, with menace and mystery lurking in every corner." --People Magazine
"The most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be...unusual and enticing ... The Incendiaries arrives at precisely the right moment." --The Washington Post
"Radiant...A dark, absorbing story of how first love can be as intoxicating and dangerous as religious fundamentalism." --New York Times Book Review
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into a cult's acts of terrorism.
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.
Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is drawn into a secretive cult founded by a charismatic former student with an enigmatic past. When the group commits a violent act in the name of faith, Will finds himself struggling to confront a new version of the fanaticism he's worked so hard to escape. Haunting and intense, The Incendiaries is a fractured love story that explores what can befall those who lose what they love most.
Book Information
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I had this book on my tbr a while before I actually read it which meant I didn't know anything about it anymore. So to anyone contemplating reading this book: do it but don't have any expectations. The plot: For a 300 pages book, you can't really expect a too complicate story with a lot of plot twists. There was definetly enough suspense to keep me reading till the end but had the book been longer it probably wouldn't have been enough. The charaters: I was really impressed by the amount of characters with different values and origin stories R.O. Kwon was able to include in such a short story. Even though I couldn't really reate to any of the characters and wasn't too invested in them something about them made me want to keep reading. The writing: The writing style in general is kind of hard to describe and I'm not really sure how I feel about it. For example every dialogue is written in reported speech which definetley took some time getting used to but it was something different that I didn't expect. The book is told in different characters point of views - something I really enjoy if it is done in the right way. And this book definetely was able to pull that of. The writing changed according to each characters individual personality so that's definetley a big part of why I liked it. In conclusion this is not one of the best books I ever read but because I didn't expect that much I was actually surprised how good it was.