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ameliatrace 's review for:
The Incendiaries
by R.O. Kwon
I found this book compelling as I was reading, but forgot about it the moment I put it down. I enjoyed trying to parse out the "truth" -- I love an unreliable narrator -- but overall both the story and character motivations felt underdeveloped. Nothing stuck. (Which I think was a deliberate writing choice! But still.) It left me with a very incomplete feeling, and nothing juicy to reflect on -- which is kinda damning given the (very timely!) discussion of the power of cult-like groups.
This is mostly so I can remember for book club discussion, since I entirely forgot what happened in this book in the four days since I finished it, but the Author's Acknowledgements was like a who's-who of other authors I've read and just been... lukewarm about. Always because the style of their novels felt more important than the content. Novels that are opaque and incomplete in character development or narrative detail, but always clearly by artistic choice. Which is to say, not my bag, but clearly the bag for many.
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This is mostly so I can remember for book club discussion, since I entirely forgot what happened in this book in the four days since I finished it, but the Author's Acknowledgements was like a who's-who of other authors I've read and just been... lukewarm about. Always because the style of their novels felt more important than the content. Novels that are opaque and incomplete in character development or narrative detail, but always clearly by artistic choice. Which is to say, not my bag, but clearly the bag for many.