julialoupratt 's review for:

The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories by Kevin Brockmeier

2.0

fast-paced

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I have never read from this author before so maybe I wasn’t expecting this style of writing but…It’s just not great. These stories feel like something out of a college freshmen’s creative writing class. There were a handful of stories in here that I thought had potential but only 6 (I counted) that I thought were genuinely good. I really powered through this because I wanted it to get better and, to be fair, it did. The last two sections were much better than most of the other sections. I mean this in the least shady way possible: I think this is something that should be slightly edited and then marketed to kids. I would have thought this was very fun and clever as a middle schooler.