What the fuck. I sobbed through those last four pages and I’ve sworn to myself I’m never opening that book again.
I almost quit at the end of The Axiom Of Equality because genuinely speaking what the hell was that. A three day reading break was taken because no matter how resilient I am that was too much. And then I started looking forward to The Happy Years which, as it turned out, was a lie crafted by Yanagihara to give her readers false hope. As much as there were some really good parts of it where I asked God to take me then in case of more heartache, which he didn’t, why did it end like that? Whyyyyy did she feel the need to do that? Couldn’t the story just end with them being happy? Does she have a personal vendetta against Jude or something?
That was the second time I almost quit. Another reading break was taken for me to go through the seven stages of grief in peace. Dear Comrade was evil. I have no words for it but that. And then when I THOUGHT Jude was going to get better and stay better Lispenard Street happened and just…
Yanagihara is not a nice author. I went through reader abuse unlike anything I’ve ever been through and I’m not going to touch that book with a ten foot pole if I can help it.
I knew it was sad, Instagram and TikTok emphasised that but I wish I knew how fucking devastating it was. Sad is not the correct word for a book like this. I wish I could flip Yanagihara off in real life man, how could she do this to me????
by Yonexx0