Piranesi has to be the most unusual book I think I've ever read. Reading this is like completing a puzzle: the longer you spend on it, the more the pieces begin to come together until you finally have a complete picture.

This book is told through a series of journal entries written by Piranesi, a man living in a labyrinthine style building called The House. Piranesi's House isn't an ordinary building, its halls are endless and the walls are lined with thousands and thousands of statues. Along with Piranesi, we begin to discover the secrets of the House and how Piranesi came to be there. (This description is rubbish lol, it's just a really difficult book to describe).

Piranesi read like a fever dream. It was slow and strange, magical and almost dream-like. The entire time I had no idea what was happening and which direction the story was heading in, until the end where everything came together and suddenly it all made sense. I could spend hours, even days, analysing this book. It felt like I was reading a strange myth.

This is definitely one of those books where you should start reading it knowing nothing, and slowly discover it's secrets on your own. It was slightly confusing and disorienting at first but I think that was intentional. Overall, it was beautifully written, and I highly recommend it

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