Log #2

"You don't wanna go out of this world with regrets. If there's something you want to do, you do it. You take this life by the balls and you tell it that you existed."

If anyone asks me to use one of two sentences to summarize the novel I'm reading right now, I'd give them the quote above. This is one of the quotes that I liked and wrote down from the novel, We All Looked Up, and I think it can be related to most of the chapters in the novel.

I'm somewhat close to the end of the novel, and in my opinion, I'd like to rate this book a 3.5 out of 5. I loved the main characters in this novel. As I was reading, I felt like I was there, experiencing their stories with them. From reader's point of view, when four of them interacted with each other, you can see the contrast between their behaviors and personalities was very strong. In fact, I think the only reason why I kept on reading is because of the well written of the characters.

However, I was not really into and liked the storyline. Just as I mentioned in my Log #1, it was slow to begin with. It picked up the pace a bit in the middle of the story but backed down and stayed slow until towards the end. When the largest twist happened, I just didn't understand what happened afterward and was a little bit lost. The novel left readers an open-ending, and I was a somewhat disappoint. It felt like I got to put up the whole time while reading this novel until the last moment, as I was expecting something great and surprising to happen and it didn't.

I'd like to end this book review with my favorite quote in this novel.

"You're one of those people who've been blessed not only with talent, but with self-awareness. And that means you get to choose what you want to do with your life, instead of life choosing for you. But having that power, the power to choose, can be a double-edged sword. Because you can choose wrong."