Steelwhisper's Reviews > Krambambuli

I hate books in which the author kills pets of any sort to explain human nature or its results. Always, to the last book, this artificially milks the reader for emotion and tears. It's a cheap trick and a shortcut, and the conflict between Pachler and Walch could have been differently externalised. Probably too difficult or time-consuming to write it that way.

I absolutely don't read to cry. I hate crying, it depresses me for days, so why would I willingly read anything which makes me miserable?