Review: Room

Room by Emma Donoghue
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Room was an excellent experience to read, particularly for those that have seen the excellent Oscar-winning screen adaptation with Brie Larson. Those that have seen that film may already have a good idea on what will happen but will appreciate the detail that you could not get away with on the silver screen, such as the curiosity over the narrator's body parts.
The greatest achievement whilst reading Room was creating the inertia of this child going through 'room' with their natural-born curiosity and trying to understand why Mom goes through mixed emotions throughout the entire novel. Whilst there is a blip of reading through their ordeal in which you want an outcome soon, but when that hits you, the novel takes all the action into fifth gear and does not stop.
Room is definitely worthy of anyone that wants to read an unsettling, yet beautiful, novel written from a child's first-person perspective.


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