These Violent Delights

A Novel

Hardcover, 480 pages

Published Sept. 15, 2020 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-296363-5
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A este libro le sobra lo menos un tercio de su volumen. La historia es buena, la prosa es fantástica, los personajes bien construidos, pero de cada tres páginas quitaba una. Ni siquiera es que crea que le sobra una parte concreta, es que le sobra cantidad de palabras.

La primera mitad es genial. Tengo subrayadas muchas frases y expresiones que encuentro geniales. La manera en que describe gestos siempre metiéndose un poco más, indicando la sutileza que subyace y hace ese gesto único, el twist en esa sonrisa, o en la forma que torna la cabeza… estaba yo entusiasmado.

La primera violencia física me asqueó y evitó que leyese más durante un tiempo. No me lo esperaba. Lo retomé y poco a poco encontré el ritmo de nuevo. Me gustó especialmente cuando Paul parece cambiar porque me lo creí. Ese capítulo(s ?) me hicieron dar aún más crédito al …

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Part of Paul would have been disappointed, even a little repelled, if Julian ever said outright that he loved him. It was  more natural for Julian to be loved than to love. If Julian were to love him, it would feel like something he deigned to do. It meant more to be needed.


Books like this tend to be my guilty pleasure: stories about bad people doing bad things for bad reasons, about toxic relationships presented exactly as such. I don't know what it is exactly what drawns me to such stories. Perhaps it's the safe way to explore the darkness. Perhaps it's the same thing that makes it hard for some people to avert their eyes from bloody accidents. 

Anyway, I was incredibly excited for this book because it promised from the start to be exactly that thing I'm after. And for a while, it had me hooked quite …

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