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Rooms
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Major TW for suicide, suicide ideation, self-harm, and sexual abuse.
I really enjoyed this book, in both concept and writing style. Lauren Oliver depicts ghosts in such an interesting, unique way, and I was genuinely blown away by the quality of her writing. Seriously, I highlighted so many amazing quotes. She's come a long way since Delirium (which I also enjoyed).
I will say, there were parts of the books I didn't love, and I wanted to see more character growth. The characters in this book reminded me a LOT of The Nest, and how I felt about The Nest was pretty similar to how I felt about this book. But because of the narration (the ghosts/walls of the house narrated a lot of the story), I enjoyed this one more than The Nest. Obviously they're really different books, but I'm talking about the writing style and characterization, not so much plot. There were multiple POVs, and some of the POVs were "meh." I kind of wish the entire book was told through Alice's POV (one of the ghosts who had the most poetic voice). But then, I guess we would have been too distanced from the characters as readers.
Because we saw, clearly, how the characters were deeply flawed and damaged, there are several scenes that are just hard to read. Pretty graphic sex scenes and harmful thought patterns, but it was such an honest depiction of what real people go through and family dysfunction. Honestly, I felt like it was more of a sad book than a thriller or creepy book, but the idea that the ghosts were in the walls, talking to each other and looking down on the characters was SO well done and interesting.
I really enjoyed this book, in both concept and writing style. Lauren Oliver depicts ghosts in such an interesting, unique way, and I was genuinely blown away by the quality of her writing. Seriously, I highlighted so many amazing quotes. She's come a long way since Delirium (which I also enjoyed).
I will say, there were parts of the books I didn't love, and I wanted to see more character growth. The characters in this book reminded me a LOT of The Nest, and how I felt about The Nest was pretty similar to how I felt about this book. But because of the narration (the ghosts/walls of the house narrated a lot of the story), I enjoyed this one more than The Nest. Obviously they're really different books, but I'm talking about the writing style and characterization, not so much plot. There were multiple POVs, and some of the POVs were "meh." I kind of wish the entire book was told through Alice's POV (one of the ghosts who had the most poetic voice). But then, I guess we would have been too distanced from the characters as readers.
Because we saw, clearly, how the characters were deeply flawed and damaged, there are several scenes that are just hard to read. Pretty graphic sex scenes and harmful thought patterns, but it was such an honest depiction of what real people go through and family dysfunction. Honestly, I felt like it was more of a sad book than a thriller or creepy book, but the idea that the ghosts were in the walls, talking to each other and looking down on the characters was SO well done and interesting.
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Quotes Mollie Liked
“Other memories—from different times and places, from my old life—have weasled their way in alongside these. It's transfiguration, the slippery nature of thought. Wine turns to blood and wafer to body, and table legs to church spires white and stark against the summer sky—and the spiderwebs in the old blueberry bushes behind my childhood home in Newport, draped across the branches like fine gray lace—the spare pleasure of a boiled egg and bread, eaten alone for dinner. All of that is the table, too.”
― Rooms
― Rooms
“It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you overtime.”
― Rooms
― Rooms
“Memory is as thick as mud. It rises up, it overwhelms. It sucks you down and freezes you where you stand. Thrash and kick and gnash your teeth. There's no escaping it.”
― Rooms
― Rooms
“This is how we grow: not up, but out, like trees—swelling to encompass all these stories, the promises and lies and bribes and habits.”
― Rooms
― Rooms
Reading Progress
October 5, 2017
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Started Reading
October 30, 2017
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Finished Reading
October 31, 2017
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