Hmmm.. The woman sighed trying to recollect her thought about this novel. She looks alternatively at her screen and at her hands resting lightly on the keyboard.
It seems that she supposed this novel would be more like The Border Trilogy with the darker themes from The Road or No Country for old Men.
Alas, she was slightly disappointed.
This novel felt unhinged without any clear character development, which the women didn't like because she likes to be moved by its story, by their predicament, but McCarthy chose to let the events and scenery play the first role instead of delving deeper into what it meant to ride those plains, chase Indians and being chased by them.
Alas, she was slightly disappointed.
When she read the reviews on Goodreads and the score this novel got out of almost a 100 000 user reviews, she had been excited to read this installment of one of her favourite characters, but again she proved not to follow the trodden path. The novel felt like an exercise in language, sparsely drenched in anything humane, albeit is covered in blood from start to finish. So, expecting to find the violence countered by the decisions behind them,.. she was slightly disappointed.
Violence without anything more to feed its devastation, is like watching a balloon rapidly deflate. It will be excited and unpredictable for a few moments, but won't leave any lasting impact.
This won't take a place among the best McCarthy has written, according to the woman. She sighed again, glad to have stated her mind so clearly without sounding like she doesn't appreciate the effort that went behind it. But she likes her books to be stories, instead of exercises in style.
