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subzerochi 's review for:
I Am Sovereign
by Nicola Barker
The first 2/3rds of the book were brilliant, then a bewildering entry was made by a character, (was it a character?) and then the book sort of disappeared. 3.65/5 for tickling me and then confusing the hell out of me.
I mean, I get it, there are questions about the all-knowing author, the colonization of minds, independence of the characters, and about how the outside and the inside are not all what we make it out to be. But All of these were being addressed, I think, without the manic segue into the author's conversation with Gay.
This felt like you were reading a good funny story about internality, and exclusion and suddenly an annoying popup from some gum-on-shoe-activism outfit took over the page and the story became the background.
I guess this means I'm gonna have to read her other books.
I mean, I get it, there are questions about the all-knowing author, the colonization of minds, independence of the characters, and about how the outside and the inside are not all what we make it out to be. But All of these were being addressed, I think, without the manic segue into the author's conversation with Gay.
This felt like you were reading a good funny story about internality, and exclusion and suddenly an annoying popup from some gum-on-shoe-activism outfit took over the page and the story became the background.
I guess this means I'm gonna have to read her other books.