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A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
WOW!!! Well, I really didn't know what I was getting myself into when I grabbed this audiobook!!
After 32hrs of listening to this, I was an exhausted, pool of emotions.
This story is HARD GOING, it has ALLL the trigger warnings, so please be careful if you decide to read this, it could be very triggering for some.
The story is about 4 friends from college who decide to all move to NYC One is an architect, one is a painter, one is an actor, and one is a lawyer.
This is their story, each of the characters has their own demons to fight, but none as much as Jude.
Jude has his own story to tell, and it is told in heartbreakingly graphic detail, he is not only brilliant, but he is also a broken child-like gay man, who doesn't really know who he is, and has to rely on Willem to be his emotional crutch and partner.
This is not a fast paced book don't go in expecting the smash-and-grab experience, you won't get that here, but what you will get is connection, a connection with every character, but mostly with Willem and Jude.
This is a highly emotional book, and I can tell you that I SOBBED reading this, I cannot warn you enough about the emotion in this book.
There was great representation in here, there are multiple POC, LGBTQ relationships, Disabled representation in an MC, and a really great friendship base between them all.
It also shows mental health issues and how they are perceived.
This book is LONG, 700+ pages, so don't go into it lightly thinking that it is going to be all hearts and flowers, IT. MOST. DEFINITELY. IS. NOT.
But if you want to read a beautiful story, about friendships, love, loss and horror this is the book for you.
If you were a fly on the wall and lived in a house for years and years, and got to watch every single persons life unfold in front of your eyes, this is what would have been written about it.
TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR EVERYTHING, I AM NOT JOKING HERE!!!!!!
Narrated by Oliver Wyman who was just amazing, it took me a while to get used to his voice, but he made every character come alive, and I was invested in them all.
After 32hrs of listening to this, I was an exhausted, pool of emotions.
This story is HARD GOING, it has ALLL the trigger warnings, so please be careful if you decide to read this, it could be very triggering for some.
The story is about 4 friends from college who decide to all move to NYC One is an architect, one is a painter, one is an actor, and one is a lawyer.
This is their story, each of the characters has their own demons to fight, but none as much as Jude.
Jude has his own story to tell, and it is told in heartbreakingly graphic detail, he is not only brilliant, but he is also a broken child-like gay man, who doesn't really know who he is, and has to rely on Willem to be his emotional crutch and partner.
This is not a fast paced book don't go in expecting the smash-and-grab experience, you won't get that here, but what you will get is connection, a connection with every character, but mostly with Willem and Jude.
This is a highly emotional book, and I can tell you that I SOBBED reading this, I cannot warn you enough about the emotion in this book.
There was great representation in here, there are multiple POC, LGBTQ relationships, Disabled representation in an MC, and a really great friendship base between them all.
It also shows mental health issues and how they are perceived.
This book is LONG, 700+ pages, so don't go into it lightly thinking that it is going to be all hearts and flowers, IT. MOST. DEFINITELY. IS. NOT.
But if you want to read a beautiful story, about friendships, love, loss and horror this is the book for you.
If you were a fly on the wall and lived in a house for years and years, and got to watch every single persons life unfold in front of your eyes, this is what would have been written about it.
TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR EVERYTHING, I AM NOT JOKING HERE!!!!!!
Narrated by Oliver Wyman who was just amazing, it took me a while to get used to his voice, but he made every character come alive, and I was invested in them all.