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Sex & Violence
by Carrie Mesrobian
Voice seems to be the intended hook here. The book lacks a plot and the text itself has no particular sense of immediacy, making the character and diction the central focus. Frank discussions of sex and liberal use of obscenity frame the meandering story of Evan's recovery.
Too often, the text lapsed into summaries of significant periods of time, telling rather than really narrating, a focus more on words than their use. I find that the novelty of references to masturbation quickly wears off, especially as they become rather mundane for their repetition.
There were some clever turns of phrase and the relationships were refreshingly realistic, but for me that was not quite enough that I would reread. While I would have liked something more, the book makes no promises on which it fails to deliver. It is what it is.
So overall this was perhaps a solid work but simply not my taste. The one thing that really bothered me was the misuse of homophones; the editor should have caught their/they're and your/you're confusion and didn't often enough that it was as much a theme as the main character's splenectomy scar.
Too often, the text lapsed into summaries of significant periods of time, telling rather than really narrating, a focus more on words than their use. I find that the novelty of references to masturbation quickly wears off, especially as they become rather mundane for their repetition.
There were some clever turns of phrase and the relationships were refreshingly realistic, but for me that was not quite enough that I would reread. While I would have liked something more, the book makes no promises on which it fails to deliver. It is what it is.
So overall this was perhaps a solid work but simply not my taste. The one thing that really bothered me was the misuse of homophones; the editor should have caught their/they're and your/you're confusion and didn't often enough that it was as much a theme as the main character's splenectomy scar.