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laporziuncula's review
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Oh goodness this was dreadful. I picked this up, to be honest, because I loved the cover 😂. And I also tend to enjoy dystopian fiction.
It started off interesting enough for the first couple of chapters, but I never really got into it, and never connected with the characters. Fairly quickly I was finding myself zoning out and skimming more than reading. It’s VERY slow paced. (After struggling with keeping my attention on it, I tried switching to audiobook and the narration is insanely slow too. I sped it up to 1.30x and that was STILL very slow but I couldn’t speed it up more than that without it being too distorted.) I usually enjoy slower paced books but this was rough.
It’s a dystopian world but I never understood why or how it got that way. The plot meanders aimlessly, is super difficult to follow and it’s very depressing. You expect a dystopian novel to be depressing to an extent of course, but there’s usually a POINT to it, and there never seemed to be one in this. It was JUST depressing.
It reminded me of James Joyce but with more punctuation, and not on purpose.
It started off interesting enough for the first couple of chapters, but I never really got into it, and never connected with the characters. Fairly quickly I was finding myself zoning out and skimming more than reading. It’s VERY slow paced. (After struggling with keeping my attention on it, I tried switching to audiobook and the narration is insanely slow too. I sped it up to 1.30x and that was STILL very slow but I couldn’t speed it up more than that without it being too distorted.) I usually enjoy slower paced books but this was rough.
It’s a dystopian world but I never understood why or how it got that way. The plot meanders aimlessly, is super difficult to follow and it’s very depressing. You expect a dystopian novel to be depressing to an extent of course, but there’s usually a POINT to it, and there never seemed to be one in this. It was JUST depressing.
It reminded me of James Joyce but with more punctuation, and not on purpose.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Violence, Drug use, Suicide, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Bullying, and Slavery
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