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A review by reader_fictions
Gone by Lisa McMann
1.0
The series has finally completed and I am so glad. Honestly, I am embarrassed that I even felt blah about the first ones; I thought that the fantasy she concocted had promise and something interesting could be done with it. Well, McCann proved me entirely wrong with the final book in the trilogy. For one thing, there really is not a plot in this novel, which makes it weak. Since there was no plot, I was able to notice something I had previously managed to ignore: the incredibly horrific writing. McCann seems not to know how to construct full sentences. Most are sentence fragments. Let me illustrate her writing style with the first section of the book:
"It's like she can't breathe anymore, no matter what she does.
Like everything is closing in on her, crowding her. Threatening her.
The hearing. The truth coming out. Reliving Durbin's party in front of a judge and the three bastards themselves, staring her down. Cameras following her around the second she steps outside the courtroom. Exposed as a narc, all of Fieldridge talking about it.
Talking about her."
Final tally: Sentences- 1, Fragments- 8. The whole book is written this way, so I would suggest passing on this series unless you appreciate lackluster grammar.
"It's like she can't breathe anymore, no matter what she does.
Like everything is closing in on her, crowding her. Threatening her.
The hearing. The truth coming out. Reliving Durbin's party in front of a judge and the three bastards themselves, staring her down. Cameras following her around the second she steps outside the courtroom. Exposed as a narc, all of Fieldridge talking about it.
Talking about her."
Final tally: Sentences- 1, Fragments- 8. The whole book is written this way, so I would suggest passing on this series unless you appreciate lackluster grammar.