A review by irina_maria
Foe by J.M. Coetzee

fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

1.25

This book fell incredibly flat for me. It went by so fast and I feel as though I was left with barely anything. I can appreciate the budding ideas about the mechanism of a narrative, but everything else it attempts to convey is so on the nose that the whole thing comes across as mediocre. I think you have much more to gain (in terms of interesting narrative structures, meditations on life and the horrors of colonialism) by carefully reading Defoe's text.