📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Piranesi
AUTHOR: Susanna Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury @bloomsburypublishing
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: September 15, 2020
The Review 📚 Piranesi
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- Lots of people rave about this book so I had to give it a try even though I was a little intimidated.
💜 What I liked:
- This book is clever. I can’t even talk about how allegorical it is without spoiling it. We follow Piranesi as he travels through a huge house with hundreds of rooms. But the mystery lies in what this place really is.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- This book was tough to get into at first. Even finished I can say it’s an extremely well written book. But it’s not something you can just zoom through. In fact you may need to read it a few times to understand all of it.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤪
💭 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Mysterious House
- 2. Large statues
- 3. Literary and Culture references
- 4. Disappearing people
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Piranesi explores the many many rooms of his house. Then he starts to realize what it really is.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 Piranesi
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.