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hey! have you finished reading iwwv? what did you think? i read it last may and i found it very,,, average and not too significant for its genre at all. the character development was nil; the ending was cool but,,, i could have gone without reading it, in some sense . the drama scenes were So good tho
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I did! I think average probably describes it best because I forgot the book almost as soon as I’d finished it and I don’t think I’d have missed out on anything if I’d chosen not to read it. The concept was unique and the drama scenes were definitely really fun to read (the macbeth part was probably my favourite). It also gave some mediocre commentary on how elitist colleges tend to be but I disliked how a part of it seemed to come at the expense of Oliver’s horrible attitude towards his sister’s struggle with eating disorders and how it was never addressed again.
Apart from that I was mostly disappointed by how Filippa was constantly described & treated and how a lot of things that I thought would be addressed later were never brought up. She’s described as having “olive skin” so I pictured her as a woman of colour which meant it especially left a bad taste in my mouth when the author made her a punching bad for several characters and set her up in a relationship with a teacher & described him as her only refuge. She’s also supposedly kinda boyish and if the author actually intended for her to be a woc it opens up another can of worms entirely what with femininity being associated only with the white female characters who’re also described as being desirable (Meredith, who I personally thought was kinda sexualised) and innocent-looking (Wren).
In the end I suppose it did work out as a good tragedy - Wren was absolutely wrecked by the whole affair, Richard - the most charismatic and talented student - was murdered by his own friends, James who mostly played good characters chose to become a monster to protect his friends, Oliver never got to confess his love for James etc but there wasn’t really a proper resolution and the book probably peaked at Richard’s death at the end of the first act (that was a really good scene. I really didn’t think they’d let him die). But yeah, the characters weren’t really interesting and they bordered on pretentious because I realised that they weren’t possessed by spirits (or something of that sort) only after I’d finished the book and that they were legitimately mouthing off random shakespeare lines even in prison rip
