The Cement Garden

One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but they must preserve their terrible secret.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery, and irresistibly readable." (The New York Review of Books)
"Darkly impressive." (The Times)

Oof

This book is disturbing as all hell. Great story. Great sense of disturbance.
The narrator was hard to get past at times. Every time he read dialogue it was quite over dramatic and silly, otherwise he did well.
Highly recommend but not for the faint of heart.

The concrete garden

The story is poor, the characters are flat and it’s predictable. It might the time the story was written.

Disappointing

Beware of Spoiler: Shocking ending. For me there was little redeeming value. The kids were really suffering, and the end result was incest? Shock value. It could have been ... well it’s his story to tell. But. Cheap ending I thought.

Really diabolical

This was pretty odd and uncomfortable and didn’t resolve anything other than make the reader feel dumb for investing 4 hours of their time into it.

Not so happy with this one:

This book was difficult to stick with. The plot was thin at best and never really takes an interesting turn. It was predictable and flat, with characters that are not engaging. I found myself not caring what happened one way or another. I think I finished it out of sheer stubbornness...