King Crusoe’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

Now on this final stretch will I’ll finish in the morning…

I’m lowkey dying. I didn’t expect for this to turn so melancholically tragic. 🥲

Finished Part Two over the last couple of days, a day earlier than scheduled, which is good!

There was a TON of great stuff here. Terrifying character developments and new plotlines for them, some redemption for some others, set-up for all of it that I’m looking forward to seeing more of.

Still aiming to be done by end of next Monday.

Wow a lot happened in my reading today. I love how diverse all of these characters are and how they are simultaneously simple caricatures yet also deeply realized individuals.

I admit I have a hard time with the more disconnected, narrator-focused chapters here and there, but everything else has been great.

I will say this: this started a bit differently than I expected! The characters are simultaneously incredibly shallow and incredibly deep in ways that I don't think is replicatable, and so much has happened in so little pages that I had no clue was going to happen.

Very good so far tho.