A review by shafia42
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

wow. initially i was relucant to start the book, id never read anthing that had a similar wrting style, so it felt dauting. i got about 20-30 pages in still confused and not really clicking iwth the book but then i read a review of the book written by somone who was blown away and i decided to continue. and im so glad i did. once you get into the rythm of the writing you are turely transported, but the thing thats differnt about this book is that youre not imagine like a movie with all the things that happen but rather only the feeling. it felt a lot like reading muisc, the book takes you through so much emtions, so much so that some scenes were too graphic and hard to get through even though the passages were only a few sentances long. you get transported into the narrators head and fwhilke you read this book you are her. i cried so much. 
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