a novel focused on the lockdown.

i did. like the honestly of many things said in this. 
and i did like how it did make great points in how too many people tried to make light of the situations of others just because they see those situations as better then their own. (but hasn’t it always been that way?)

the writing was easy to read and since the book is under 200 pages it’s a fast read. 

but in my copy there wasn’t quotations when someone was speaking -maybe it’s a pet peeve of mine but i HATE it when a published work can’t even be punctuated correctly! Or maybe that’s my dyslexia that really has trouble with differentiating between inner and actual monologues without the easy to add help of punctuations/quotation marks. 

so i didn’t love that especially in a book like that that has a lot of inner monologue and than all of a sudden is saying something. 
it was alright but it would have been nicer to read with the addition of quotations that are really not that hard to add. 


i also disliked the ending and how it left it all in a way that we don’t really know if anything changed for any of the people in the story. 

in a way it fits because we get dropped into the story and leave it just as suddenly. 
not what i love, i prefer it when i get a bit of a clearer understanding of where characters are left off with. 

that doesn’t make it a bad ending for other readers, but doesn’t make it a great read for me either. 


all in all i didn’t love this but it wasn’t bad. 

it did show the troubles some people had during lockdown and it did capture that pretty well for the people that can’t seem to stay in their own homes for a few days at a time. 


it’s a hard book to review and even harder to recommend 

it’s a very melancholy kind of book, focusing very much on the hardships and troubles and what can’t be done and ist happening, instead of trying to find some positive. 

so if you enjoy that? it’s a good book for you. 
 
 for example “ghost wall” by this author is very similar in style, tone and even the isolation but unhappiness of being isolated. 
so if you loved that? 
this will most likely also be a book that you will enjoy. 


overall it’s a good book and i think a good momentum of this specific time we lived through, that in maybe 10 or so years will be more impactful of a read than it is now. 
we all remember the lockdown very well now but in some years down the road a very harsh reminder of what kind of rules and regulations were set and what wasn’t allowed might be a bit of a shocking or horrific reminder and make this a more impactful and though provoking read as it is right now.