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We Can Never Leave
by H.E. Edgmon
DID NOT FINISH: 20%
I am DNFing this at 20%, unfortunately.
I'm noticing a trend with Edgmon's characters across his novels, and it just doesn't vibe with me. The tendency for unnecessary cruelty between characters reaaaallly makes it tough for me to read.
In We Can Never Leave, the chapters switch between all of the teen characters within a close-knit community of social outcasts... and each and every single one of them is so incredibly horrible and mean to the others. Like, how am I supposed to believe that? If this is the social atmosphere within a safe community for alike people, why the heck is it SO HOSTILE? In their Ouroboros duology there was some great character development away from this same type of teen hostility, but it took a long time to get there and I don't have the willpower to do it again. The catty, knife-twisting one-liners are also a very jarring jump from the otherwise poetic and meandering internal monologues.
Hopefully there is some good character growth and my one star is not deserved, I just can't sit through more of this meanness.
Thank you Netgalley for approving my ARC request for an honest review.
I'm noticing a trend with Edgmon's characters across his novels, and it just doesn't vibe with me. The tendency for unnecessary cruelty between characters reaaaallly makes it tough for me to read.
In We Can Never Leave, the chapters switch between all of the teen characters within a close-knit community of social outcasts... and each and every single one of them is so incredibly horrible and mean to the others. Like, how am I supposed to believe that? If this is the social atmosphere within a safe community for alike people, why the heck is it SO HOSTILE? In their Ouroboros duology there was some great character development away from this same type of teen hostility, but it took a long time to get there and I don't have the willpower to do it again. The catty, knife-twisting one-liners are also a very jarring jump from the otherwise poetic and meandering internal monologues.
Hopefully there is some good character growth and my one star is not deserved, I just can't sit through more of this meanness.
Thank you Netgalley for approving my ARC request for an honest review.