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murderbot42 's review for:
Phantoms
by Christian Kiefer
Oh, wow. This one was hard to rate. The subject matter definitely needs to be talked about and the plot was solid. My main problem was the author's style. He uses a weird POV switching style that when used in this way, really just distracts from the main story. There's really nothing you get from switching view that way, and quite a bit of the drama of the story is lost in the going back and forth.
So I was on the fence about what to rate this and I was thinking about 3 stars, you know, kind of mediocre, but had its good parts. But then I thought about the fact that it barely touches on the Japanese internment camps at all. Like, why set your book with a Japanese character in that time period and barely deal directly with the subject matter at hand? Was he trying to be coy? Why shine a light on a subject only to immediately after hide it under a bush? It makes no sense. So in the end, I had to knock off a star for that. If you're going to take the time to set a period piece during an important time in our history, you have got to show that history, warts and all, and you aren't doing anybody any favors by white washing or avoiding events.
So I was on the fence about what to rate this and I was thinking about 3 stars, you know, kind of mediocre, but had its good parts. But then I thought about the fact that it barely touches on the Japanese internment camps at all. Like, why set your book with a Japanese character in that time period and barely deal directly with the subject matter at hand? Was he trying to be coy? Why shine a light on a subject only to immediately after hide it under a bush? It makes no sense. So in the end, I had to knock off a star for that. If you're going to take the time to set a period piece during an important time in our history, you have got to show that history, warts and all, and you aren't doing anybody any favors by white washing or avoiding events.