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Ganz nettes Geschenkbuch. Eigentlich aber keine Gebrauchsanweisung, sondern eine Sammlung von Zitaten und persönlichen Ansichten zum Thema. Eher oberflächlich und brav. Kernthese: Lesen ist gut für uns, und wie man es macht, ist eigentlich egal, nur besser nicht digital.

A book that reads more like a lenghty draft for a short story, and its plot or characters' motivations aren't very convincing either.

A book so immature in both style and characterization that it was impossible for me to even get to the supposedly imaginative parts.

I probably read this book having false expectations based on the series, which I quite liked because it reimagines trauma as a story of haunting, which has always made a lot of sense to me. And though the original story is quite different, there's a lot of similarites. But I could not translate the book's most troubled character's fears and desires in any meaningful way (if this happened to me, I kept thinking, everything would be very different); or perhaps it's all too obvious to be interesting, like a lenghty exploration of a mystery that has already been solved.