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A review by antoniaj2514
The Murders in the Rue Morgue - a C. Auguste Dupin Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe
5.0
This had such detailed word-building and strong, likeable characters, so it’s a shame the whole book was just an exposition dump with no story.
I've read this described as character-driven, which I can't agree with. There are characters, nothing but characters, but 'driven' implies going somewhere, and this doesn't at all. Character-driven still needs situations, tension, adversity, obstacles etc, whereas this is just a bunch of characters pottering about, chatting, for many hundred pages.
I've read this described as character-driven, which I can't agree with. There are characters, nothing but characters, but 'driven' implies going somewhere, and this doesn't at all. Character-driven still needs situations, tension, adversity, obstacles etc, whereas this is just a bunch of characters pottering about, chatting, for many hundred pages.