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A review by castorstarr
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
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3.5
This book was small and yet what should have taken me a day took over a week. I have to dock points for that. This wasn't the kind of book that draws you in, or even seems to want you around. Part of this is the writing style itself- the lack of quotation marks and strange jumping around in time. Another piece of it is that it's in present-tense, which always hinders my reading experience. Combined with the aforementioned style, it was a perfect storm of reading issues.
I don't really understand the point of this book, and I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of a true arc. I feel like I'm saying this a lot this year, but I wanted to like this book more than I did.
I appreciated Stella and her story line but all the characters were conceptualized in a way where you think they're in depth but then when questioned about it you really have no reason for saying so.
People say this book feels like a dream, and I'd agree. Fagan captures the feeling of endless winter and uncertainty, but all in all is so difficult to get a solid hold on I genuinely do feel like I'm trying to remember the dream I had a few minutes ago. Is that a good thing? No idea.
This book was small and yet what should have taken me a day took over a week. I have to dock points for that. This wasn't the kind of book that draws you in, or even seems to want you around. Part of this is the writing style itself- the lack of quotation marks and strange jumping around in time. Another piece of it is that it's in present-tense, which always hinders my reading experience. Combined with the aforementioned style, it was a perfect storm of reading issues.
I don't really understand the point of this book, and I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of a true arc. I feel like I'm saying this a lot this year, but I wanted to like this book more than I did.
I appreciated Stella and her story line but all the characters were conceptualized in a way where you think they're in depth but then when questioned about it you really have no reason for saying so.
People say this book feels like a dream, and I'd agree. Fagan captures the feeling of endless winter and uncertainty, but all in all is so difficult to get a solid hold on I genuinely do feel like I'm trying to remember the dream I had a few minutes ago. Is that a good thing? No idea.