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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
So underwhelming and anticlimactic. Kept building up just to not go anywhere. Hard to even call it a love triangle if there’s barely any love anywhere
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-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
Hmm hard to say anything about it. Just an okay book. Nothing too interesting but nothing too boring as well.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I just didn't find it very interesting/ it didn't suck me into the reading vortex what at first annoyed me the most was that the way any dialogue was written the characters were always like I said he said she said ect. where were the he asked, he exclaimed, she laughed ect.ialao when i started reading it the sentences were extremely confusing for me for some reason idk why. then when reading 2nd part i didnt have that problem and the it came back a little bit in the 3rd part overall a very simple book
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Ava, twenty-two years old, has moved to Hong Kong to decide what to do next in her life. She accepts a low-paying position as a teacher of English in a Hong Kong school. She doesn’t like her flat mates and ends up moving in with a twenty-nine-year-old banker named Julian. When Julian must return to London for three months, Ava finds herself attracted to a lawyer, Edith, a native of Hong Kong.
The main character, Ava, is angsty, immature, and shallow. Julian, the man Ava lives with, is distant, controlling, shallow, and, at times, emotionally abusive. What about these characters would make a good novel? In addition, the author doesn’t bother to use Hong Kong to the fullest extent possible. While it is evident that the author wanted to write a novel with complex characters and multiple issues, all she succeeded in doing is writing a novel about self-absorbent and deeply flawed characters.
This was not an easy read because of the author’s lack of character development and its stream-of-consciousness style of writing. The author tried very hard to make this novel seem intelligent and oh-so-sophisticated, and all she managed to do is to bore her readers to tears.
My thanks to the publisher for an eARC.
The main character, Ava, is angsty, immature, and shallow. Julian, the man Ava lives with, is distant, controlling, shallow, and, at times, emotionally abusive. What about these characters would make a good novel? In addition, the author doesn’t bother to use Hong Kong to the fullest extent possible. While it is evident that the author wanted to write a novel with complex characters and multiple issues, all she succeeded in doing is writing a novel about self-absorbent and deeply flawed characters.
This was not an easy read because of the author’s lack of character development and its stream-of-consciousness style of writing. The author tried very hard to make this novel seem intelligent and oh-so-sophisticated, and all she managed to do is to bore her readers to tears.
My thanks to the publisher for an eARC.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes