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laurrra 's review for:
American War
by Omar El Akkad
Couldn't finish this. I'm a fan of dystopian fiction and love a female protagonist, but couldn't overlook the clunky writing. There's frequent repetition of basic things about the characters (Sarat's a tomboy, her twin isn't - we get it already!) or inconsistencies where Sarat is so young/innocent that she doesn't understand lying, but a couple pages later she has some tremendous adult insight that doesn't fit.
The writing for the "flashback" news pieces or academic papers or whatever they were supposed to be didn't illuminate things the way I felt they should. The rebels / Free South distinction was lost on me.
The writing for the "flashback" news pieces or academic papers or whatever they were supposed to be didn't illuminate things the way I felt they should. The rebels / Free South distinction was lost on me.