Aj the Ravenous Reader's Reviews > Where Things Come Back

This is one of those stories that heavily relies on the theme that every element, character and symbol was manipulated to evoke said theme and in my observations, that’s usually a good thing. It’s what brings books to literary nominations and stuff. In my own personal opinion though, sometimes it’s also these same literary elements that interfere with the “feels”, with the reader’s enjoyment of a book and with being able to relate with the characters because often in life, things don’t always have symbolic meanings. Sometimes, a place is just a place and a bird is just a bird and yet I could still take some sort of appreciation from that simple truth. Still, I do appreciate the literary devices, the POVs, the unusual plot structure and how things came together in the end. It would be a really good material for academic literary analysis. ;)