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A review by acanthous
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
1.0
The first half or so was enjoyable enough. That story should have been fleshed out a tiny bit more and it could have made a solid novel. What it turned into was... not a solid novel. It dragged on, becoming ever more convoluted and pointless, until it introduced fantastical elements at the end to cap it off with an even more pointless air because then it lacks even a small feeling of "this could be true."
If it were literary, or deeply meaningful, or something like that... I'd give it a pass. But any depth here is only an illusion; it's not a sound, it's a puddle. The writing quality itself was fine but nothing great (I kept noticing sentences near each other with awkwardly repeated words).
Books should either be a) entertaining b) thought-provoking or c) both. The first half of this book was 3/5 stars on A and the rest of the book was zero stars on all. I regret buying this book.
If it were literary, or deeply meaningful, or something like that... I'd give it a pass. But any depth here is only an illusion; it's not a sound, it's a puddle. The writing quality itself was fine but nothing great (I kept noticing sentences near each other with awkwardly repeated words).
Books should either be a) entertaining b) thought-provoking or c) both. The first half of this book was 3/5 stars on A and the rest of the book was zero stars on all. I regret buying this book.