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A review by patrickwadden
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
2.0
it's not that all books should be a pleasant experience to read, but I do know that this one felt like a slog a great deal of the time.
As someone who also writes in a Woolfean stream of consciousness way, it's most engaging and at it's best, especially in this disjointed narratives, when people interact and then we can see the contrasting thought processes behind the action. The problem in this is there just isn't much action. Most of the stream of consciousness is really depressing trauma dumping which is crucial to the story and the characters but when it's not broken up with present day actions then it just feels like you're telling & not showing. Some really great passages and pages, but not paced well and feels bloated. The thing is 400+ pages and takes places over about 8 hrs
As someone who also writes in a Woolfean stream of consciousness way, it's most engaging and at it's best, especially in this disjointed narratives, when people interact and then we can see the contrasting thought processes behind the action. The problem in this is there just isn't much action. Most of the stream of consciousness is really depressing trauma dumping which is crucial to the story and the characters but when it's not broken up with present day actions then it just feels like you're telling & not showing. Some really great passages and pages, but not paced well and feels bloated. The thing is 400+ pages and takes places over about 8 hrs