Leah’s Reviews > A Little Life > Status Update

i stopped reading this for a few weeks because it actually is too awful to read in one go

just picked it up for 3 pages and got to the title dropping « you have to show a little life »
this is absolutely the worst meaning she could have given to the title. i was not expecting that at all, i thought it was more along the lines of we follow his life throughout the book but, no, gosh
i hate it

it’s okay to give your characters trauma, i get it, it builds towards development or whatever
but it is NOT okay to give your characters trauma so severe that it will traumatise trauma
w h o wrote this? this is actually just sick
i don’t know who would enjoy reading this yet alone writing this? really? this book has such a big fandom how
there better be something in the second half that convinces me

what the actual fuck

i adore this book

also it’s not as tragic as people make it out to be
right now it’s perfectly fine

i can’t seem to put it down

this book has the capacity to make me so sad and then so so happy in the span of 50 pages

tried the audiobook on the last chapter and was pretty nice
what’s going on between W and H?????

I’m enjoying J and W as characters, as well as the friendship between them, unsure about M or JB yet (not a fan but hoping that will change)
getting scared though because i know this book is supposed to be rough and i can see a few different paths it could take in that direction…
also sue me but Jude looks like Jude Law in my mind

pretty good so far, this is very well written and i like the maze-like switch of povs between past and present