Only read this post if you’ve read the book MAJOR SPOILERS!!!

WHAT THE F!!! I don’t know whether I’m mad at the author or at the situation I just read……. Does no one care that this little boy just escaped from a freaking explosion and got ZERO medical attention!!! And the social workers didn’t even ask where he was at the time of the explosion. Do they even KNOW he was there??? He’s clearly concussed as hell!!! His mother just died and no one showed him a single ounce of compassion 😭😭😭 was the book written purposely to make me feel this extremely frustrated? There was entire paragraphs I skipped because I just wanted to get to the part where he made it to a hospital and someone cared for him… WHICH NEVER HAPPENED!!! AGHHHHHHHH!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 am I the only one who felt like this. I’ve never been this mad at a book before

  • de-and-roses@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Keep going. It’s called a slow building plot. I’m sorry if I sound rude but your post makes me rather angry at your attitude that the book has to do what you think is right? Maybe that is part of the plot??? And you are supposed to feel something???

    • sunlover010@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I didn’t mean to insult the book at all, I think it’s very well written and so far and the world drew me in. I was more so trying to express my frustration at how this boy is being treated, and wondering if that’s how the author intended for you to feel. But of course I wrote this post in a haste seconds after I put the book down and was not very eloquent with my feelings 🤣

  • Elegant_Habit_9269@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s an infuriating book. I regret the time I wasted reading it. I loved the Secret History but Tartt really missed the mark with this one.

  • kiminyme@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s very much a character background.

    To me, though, it isn’t that much worse than books where the main character is forced to sleep in a closet and the adults around him don’t do anything about the fact that he’s beaten and underfed.