Sati Marie Frost’s Reviews > The Buried Giant > Status Update

This is a great book, but so beautifully crafted that it’s slow going, because I find myself wanting to concentrate on every word and analyse every action and description, perhaps to solve a mystery that I’m not sure is even there. As someone who has always sped through books - I could read 5-6 Babysitters’ Club books in a day as a kid - this is unusual for me, even though my reading pace has slowed with age.

I’m not sure what to think of this one yet. The mystery compels me to find out more, but I think I perhaps am too autistic to understand or appreciate the relationship between Axl and Beatrice. It is perhaps the most British thing I’ve ever read - reference acknowledged but not intended - and I frequently find myself mystified by the teasing, irreverent relationships between Brits who love one another.