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gsanta1 's review for:
Murder Most Unladylike
by Robin Stevens
I don’t think I’ve read such an impersonal book in a long time.
I couldn’t finish this book, but what I read was thin.
It’s all plot and mechanisms.
We don’t get to know anything about any of these people, but somehow we’re supposed to care.
I get that this is Middle Grade, we like action, we like adrenaline, but I’ve never read a Middle Grade book so detached.
This is one of those books where you could read the plot outline and not miss anything.
The two people that we follow around— I can’t even say ‘get to know’— are insufferable.
You have Hazel, the protagonist who doesn’t seem to mind being seen and treated as an inferior. Even by her supposed ‘friend’.
Then there’s Daisy who acts more like an antagonist than a friend.
We’re supposed to spend time with these uninteresting, obnoxious people?
Maybe it gets better, but there’s enough suffering without bringing it upon yourself.
I couldn’t finish this book, but what I read was thin.
It’s all plot and mechanisms.
We don’t get to know anything about any of these people, but somehow we’re supposed to care.
I get that this is Middle Grade, we like action, we like adrenaline, but I’ve never read a Middle Grade book so detached.
This is one of those books where you could read the plot outline and not miss anything.
The two people that we follow around— I can’t even say ‘get to know’— are insufferable.
You have Hazel, the protagonist who doesn’t seem to mind being seen and treated as an inferior. Even by her supposed ‘friend’.
Then there’s Daisy who acts more like an antagonist than a friend.
We’re supposed to spend time with these uninteresting, obnoxious people?
Maybe it gets better, but there’s enough suffering without bringing it upon yourself.