It let the optimist reader feel the same, and the cynical reader worry for him. More Amnesia vibes! Presenting everything through Piranesi's lens made it so interesting, with his wide-eyed innocence. Alternate universes we don't understand are so cool. Also made me think of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I was immediately enthralled because of the House of Leaves vibes. It didn't bother me too much though because it did serve as an interesting introduction for the reader. He had his indexes if he needed to refer back to the info, so there was no apparent story-based reason for him to suddenly decide to start writing summaries. I guess if I have one minor nitpick, it’s that it doesn’t really make sense that the first journal entries we read (which are from his latest journal) summarize things he had already discovered and still remembered from a few years ago. I also would have enjoyed if the story had kept going a bit longer. I had a few niggling questions about things I initially thought didn’t make sense but for which I could come up with explanations that satisfied me when I put more thought into them. I’m not sure there’s really anything that didn’t work for me. I love these sorts of “confusing start” books where everything is slowly revealed with small clues, so the story-telling format worked really well for me, as did the setting and the main character. I had assumed she was a friend or just another curious academic person who had noticed his disappearance in connection with Arne-Sayles. I was also a little surprised when Raphael (aka 16) was revealed to be a police officer. Even though there are many questions in the beginning, the clues were all laid out in such a way that I slowly figured things out well before they were revealed.Īctually, the one thing I was surprised by was in the very beginning – for some reason I had been reading Piranesi as a female, so I was surprised when he first referred to himself as a “young man” and had to keep reminding myself of that for a while. I didn’t feel like there were any big surprises. I wanted to learn more about him though, and I was initially a little frustrated at how little of him we actually saw, even in the early section titled “The Other”, when I was so curious about him.Īlthough we didn’t see as much of her, I really liked Raphael (16), the hints of her personality through what little back story we got for her, and the way she supported Piranesi and didn’t try to push him into anything he wasn’t ready for. I liked his can-do attitude, his desire to believe the best of people, his curiosity and his respect for his surroundings, and his attempts to do the right thing when presented with a moral dilemma.Īt first, I wanted The Other to be a good person, but it was clear early on that he had ulterior motives and self-serving goals. I probably wouldn’t have been as good as Piranesi at surviving with limited supplies, but I would have loved the solitude and the sound of the waves and the infinite things to explore and discover. I wanted to explore ALL the halls (or try to anyway!) and look at all the statues and hang out with the birds.
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