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sausome 's review for:
Flowers of Darkness
by Tatiana de Rosnay
This was an okay book. Not great, but not terrible, about an amalgamation of present and futuristic AI elements. It was a look at relationships, commentary on art and the process of making art, and commentary on the nature of surveillance culture via AI, technology, and health applications. It was about a lot and not a lot at the same time, taking part much of the time in the mind and in thought.
Some things that didn't entirely work for me: I could not understand how the 14 year old granddaughter was constantly talking/behaving like a 30 year old woman. I found her dialog completely unbelievable and unlikely and odd. I also didn't really understand the use of "missy" for the granddaughter - not capitalized like a nickname, but as the end of a question, like "What are you doing, missy?" but it was used so often and in weird, stilted dialog places. There were also a million exclamation points - who needs that many exclamation points? Who speaks with such exclamation all the time? So I suppose the author's written dialog and style of writing was not for me.
On the whole, the attempt to cover so many things at once made the book feel very disjointed and not really about any one thing. The nature of the apartment and what was going on there ended up feeling secondary, in a way, when I think the book would have been better had that been the main focus of all the author's energy.
Some things that didn't entirely work for me: I could not understand how the 14 year old granddaughter was constantly talking/behaving like a 30 year old woman. I found her dialog completely unbelievable and unlikely and odd. I also didn't really understand the use of "missy" for the granddaughter - not capitalized like a nickname, but as the end of a question, like "What are you doing, missy?" but it was used so often and in weird, stilted dialog places. There were also a million exclamation points - who needs that many exclamation points? Who speaks with such exclamation all the time? So I suppose the author's written dialog and style of writing was not for me.
On the whole, the attempt to cover so many things at once made the book feel very disjointed and not really about any one thing. The nature of the apartment and what was going on there ended up feeling secondary, in a way, when I think the book would have been better had that been the main focus of all the author's energy.