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5.0
Ms Partridge in Mine manages to convey the full scope of an epic love with a keen sense of tragic realism.
In Fin and Kayla we have people who are trapped in the spiral of a complicated love that is their solace from the chaos thrust into their lives by school, family and so-called friends.
The novel wraps itself in the trappings of pop culture and music, Fin is rapper, Kay is a pink haired skater girl and comic book reader, Fin is THOR when he's on stage (The God of Thunder and Verse) and Kay feels she has more in common with Galactus than Spider-man (Miles Morales Forever) - both characters are vivid and real.
Those wonderful words:
The words flowing from Fin and Kay have an astounding resonance. They are words that fall out of the mouth of all the doomed lovers I ever knew (The true walking dead), these words were uttered in school stairways while I watched with stomach twisting dread, the same mistake being made again and again with the conviction that this time - this time it would be different. I've heard these words in my own head, finding the same emotional echo chamber that defines and twists Kayla's sense of self worth.
The words are sublime.
A Sense of place
Mine offers a South African awareness of space that isn't too constricting or laden with historical detail. The pitfall about setting a story in South Africa, is the context of the history that goes with a locale - and South Africa has history aplenty. Ms Patridge offers a sense of place without the millstone of this history - it is a sense of place that is constructed and conveyed with brevity but filled with a personal context for Fin and Kayla from dirty broken Lansdowne to the privilege of Newlands.
In Fin and Kayla we have people who are trapped in the spiral of a complicated love that is their solace from the chaos thrust into their lives by school, family and so-called friends.
The novel wraps itself in the trappings of pop culture and music, Fin is rapper, Kay is a pink haired skater girl and comic book reader, Fin is THOR when he's on stage (The God of Thunder and Verse) and Kay feels she has more in common with Galactus than Spider-man (Miles Morales Forever) - both characters are vivid and real.
Those wonderful words:
The words flowing from Fin and Kay have an astounding resonance. They are words that fall out of the mouth of all the doomed lovers I ever knew (The true walking dead), these words were uttered in school stairways while I watched with stomach twisting dread, the same mistake being made again and again with the conviction that this time - this time it would be different. I've heard these words in my own head, finding the same emotional echo chamber that defines and twists Kayla's sense of self worth.
The words are sublime.
A Sense of place
Mine offers a South African awareness of space that isn't too constricting or laden with historical detail. The pitfall about setting a story in South Africa, is the context of the history that goes with a locale - and South Africa has history aplenty. Ms Patridge offers a sense of place without the millstone of this history - it is a sense of place that is constructed and conveyed with brevity but filled with a personal context for Fin and Kayla from dirty broken Lansdowne to the privilege of Newlands.
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