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Fen

Daisy Johnson

3.59 AVERAGE

miniando's review against another edition

4.5

emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Another short story. Kinda feminist in its nature. If you enjoyed the basic story like "The Old Man and the Sea," then you'll like "The Lighthouse Keeper" (fyi, I can't stand Hemingway). Johnson is a better author than Hemingway. This book is very poetic in its sentence structure. There was probably a ton of symbolism, but I was in a rush to finish it. You don't really need to read this. It was what all short stories should be: short.

izzazel's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

While Daisy Johnson writes some stories with genuinely interesting concepts, she spends so much of her prose attempting to craft a shield of mysterious smoke that is so thick that it makes it difficult to actually follow the story. There is a saying “show not tell” in writing, advice which Johnson clearly took so seriously that it her prose has left her readers confused and rereading stories to work out which details had been missed.