Mads’s Reviews > The Narrow Road to the Deep North > Status Update

Currently not understanding the hype around this book… A classic case of “tell not feel”.

Also really not buying the romantic entanglement because — quite frankly — we’re told absolutely nothing about either of the lovers beyond their appearance. When there’s scores of paragraphs fleshing out the uncle.

Clunky language making me cringe.

I last remember feeling this way reading The Sympathiser.