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tsmi11's review
1.0
I didn't like this book. I hated the writing style (come on just use quotation marks to indicate speech for Christ's sake). It tried to be too many things: creepy, poetic, deep, mysterious and thrilling. Instead it felt long-winded, slow paced and predictable. The twist was no twist. I would call this a poor man's Shutter Island .
It was nominated for an Evergreen award this year and although I don't always enjoy the books nominated I generally understand that it is just personal taste and not poor writing quality that leads me to dislike the book. In this case I have to utterly question the nomination: this story is wholly unoriginal, poorly written, with contrived drama and characters who are caricatures of real humans.
I wish I hadn't read this book because I will struggle to encourage patrons to my library to waste their time reading such an abysmal story.
It was nominated for an Evergreen award this year and although I don't always enjoy the books nominated I generally understand that it is just personal taste and not poor writing quality that leads me to dislike the book. In this case I have to utterly question the nomination: this story is wholly unoriginal, poorly written, with contrived drama and characters who are caricatures of real humans.
I wish I hadn't read this book because I will struggle to encourage patrons to my library to waste their time reading such an abysmal story.
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