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A review by ghostycell
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
DNF at 57%.
So overwritten, sex scenes so bad it could turn rabbits clerical, overly sexual descriptions of children (I can't believe this keeps happening in books??), descriptions of an entire family's genitals, icky and cynical descriptions of almost everything, narrator bounces around and hard to decipher who's talking and where, endless conversations (who talks like that?), clunky writing.
Interesting premise but no execution. This is about 40% 'just not for me' and 60% genuinely bad writing.
So overwritten, sex scenes so bad it could turn rabbits clerical, overly sexual descriptions of children (I can't believe this keeps happening in books??), descriptions of an entire family's genitals, icky and cynical descriptions of almost everything, narrator bounces around and hard to decipher who's talking and where, endless conversations (who talks like that?), clunky writing.
Interesting premise but no execution. This is about 40% 'just not for me' and 60% genuinely bad writing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content