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adam_mcphee 's review for:
The Rules of Revelation
by Lisa McInerney
A strange book. Really disliked the overlong character soliloquies or whatever, but at the same time I read the last third of this book in a single sitting. Not enough plot to be a thriller, but too much plot to be purely "literary". Three books in and they're all still mulling over the early events of the first book, but then there's a lot to mull over.
There's a lot of gender politics and I think McInerney gets them mostly right. I liked Ryan's interview when he remembers being fourteen and says, "Once your voice breaks you’re not a child, you’re a fucking problem." I liked Maureen's tourism business. It almost seemed a bit too quirky at first, but you think about it for a second and you gotta figure that's how all those tour guides start out. I loved the craic, and how the sarcasm permeates every line to the point you almost stop noticing it. I hated the music storyline. People being in a band feels like a real throwback, not something people are still doing, although maybe they are in Ireland or maybe I'm just out of touch.
I don't know what McInerney is doing next, but I hope we see more of the Cusacks and their Cork.
There's a lot of gender politics and I think McInerney gets them mostly right. I liked Ryan's interview when he remembers being fourteen and says, "Once your voice breaks you’re not a child, you’re a fucking problem." I liked Maureen's tourism business. It almost seemed a bit too quirky at first, but you think about it for a second and you gotta figure that's how all those tour guides start out. I loved the craic, and how the sarcasm permeates every line to the point you almost stop noticing it. I hated the music storyline. People being in a band feels like a real throwback, not something people are still doing, although maybe they are in Ireland or maybe I'm just out of touch.
I don't know what McInerney is doing next, but I hope we see more of the Cusacks and their Cork.