Review by moonknitter - Sunburn

moonknitter 's review for:

Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.5

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I definitely really loved this book and i read it at a good time in the late summer and while trying to get over someone. Because I don’t consume a lot of Irish media it did remind me of derry girls a little and I found myself substituting some of “the girls” with characters from derry girls and I enjoyed this. I also felt like the narration was similar in some ways to my year of rest in relaxation in this very dense description of inner thoughts but in a sort of blasé attitude. The narrator was also very unreliable it felt like. I didn’t particularly like that but I logically wanted to also give her grace as a teenager. I definitely understood why she did what she did and it felt deeply relatable but I also was so frustrated with her for doing it.

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