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shainas's review
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Every so often you'll read a book that makes you hate the written word. Welcome to The Unbinding. Originally written as a serialized web book, it is scattered through with words randomly in bold that were once probably a link to something that lead to something tangentially interesting. Perhaps that would have been helpful in understanding what this book is actually about.
...Then again, maybe not. Told in epistolary fashion for the age of email, the book is filled with unlikable, unreliable narrators whining in what is basically their diary. Each character tells conflicting stories that sometimes go along the lines of, "I got you!" to which the other replies, "No, I got you because of this super secret thing that I'm not going to describe and for which there was never any foundation laid. Haha!" And then the other character replies, "I know about the super secret thing that was never mentioned before two pages ago, and I triple got you because Stuff! Haha to you!"
You're left having endured 165 pages that feels like 1500 and when you finally, finally close the back cover you think, "I have no idea what that book was about and I resent you for wasting my time."
...Then again, maybe not. Told in epistolary fashion for the age of email, the book is filled with unlikable, unreliable narrators whining in what is basically their diary. Each character tells conflicting stories that sometimes go along the lines of, "I got you!" to which the other replies, "No, I got you because of this super secret thing that I'm not going to describe and for which there was never any foundation laid. Haha!" And then the other character replies, "I know about the super secret thing that was never mentioned before two pages ago, and I triple got you because Stuff! Haha to you!"
You're left having endured 165 pages that feels like 1500 and when you finally, finally close the back cover you think, "I have no idea what that book was about and I resent you for wasting my time."
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