Imme [trying to crawl out of hiatus] van Gorp's Reviews > Angstige mensen

|| 4.5 stars ||

Oh my! This was positively lovely! It was the perfect mix of humour, emotion, intellect, and mystery: I was constantly cracking up laughing, my heart continued to swell to the point of bursting, my brain felt properly stimulated by so many thought-provoking moments, and I could never quite figure out that mystery! I laughed, I felt, I was kept guessing; it gave me everything!

On the surface this story and especially these characters all seemed very silly and quirky, but even that silliness and quirkiness had a deeper meaning. It all meant something, and that meaning was beautiful.
The book’s underlying message showed the importance of kindness, of forgiveness, of trying to understand your fellow human, of seeing similarities in someone who might seem so very different from you, of seeing the grief or pain that may lay under the surface of someone’s outer layer, of knowing that you are not alone in your fears, but, most importantly, it showed the beauty and power in finding acceptance, and perhaps even love or true friendship, in another soul, no matter who that person might be or when it might happen.

But, honestly, I don’t think I can do the book justice by trying to explain what the meaning was; you are just going to have to read the book for that. And you really should, as the book trully tells all of it so wonderfully.