Marlene Röder - In The River Darkness

In the River Darkness - Marlene Röder (Book Review)

It’s been about four days since I have read this book once again - and I have to say I had better left it alone. This book is crazy at foreshadowing things and when I read this at maybe 12 or 13, I didn’t really get the spoilers.

I loved the story, though, and I read it in about 2 days. It was a pretty quick read, though. I liked the main character, but somehow it was quite confusing how the perspective changed constantly. One character had some autistic traits to him when looked onto by another character, but once I got his inside view I found him to be a pretty normal guy,no autistic traits whatsoever. It wasn’t really authentic. And the resolution failed. It sucked balls to be honest - but I won’t tell you that, because you can find out for yourself. I remember having loved this book and now it seems I have destroyed the magic of that book by reading it once again.
The writing style was bad. Really bad. It’s full of those nonsense-y metaphors and similes that just make you cringe, that’s how bad they are. All in all, this book was pretty good when I was young, but now… well.

(originally posted December 2015)