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hellastrong 's review for:
One Good Turn
by Kate Atkinson
Boy, was this a disappointment.
I've read Atkinson before (Life After Life) and enjoyed it, but these Jackson Brodie books are just not good. I work as an editor and this book CONSTANTLY interrupted my reading flow because she has some weird hangup about semicolons (my favorite punctuation mark!). She WILL. NOT. use them, even though practically every sentence she writes calls for one. She just scatters commas everywhere, willy nilly, where there should be semicolons and conjunctions and new sentences (oh my!). Come to think of it, that might be why she doesn't use semicolons: because to do so would call out the fact that nearly every sentence is a jumbled mess of run-on thoughts, all crammed together stream-of-consciousness style. I liked Case Histories reasonably well and hoped I'd enjoy the rest of the series, but no thank you. Brodie has not grown one whit as a character, and everyone else in this book (with possible exception of Louise) was just an annoying mess.
I've read Atkinson before (Life After Life) and enjoyed it, but these Jackson Brodie books are just not good. I work as an editor and this book CONSTANTLY interrupted my reading flow because she has some weird hangup about semicolons (my favorite punctuation mark!). She WILL. NOT. use them, even though practically every sentence she writes calls for one. She just scatters commas everywhere, willy nilly, where there should be semicolons and conjunctions and new sentences (oh my!). Come to think of it, that might be why she doesn't use semicolons: because to do so would call out the fact that nearly every sentence is a jumbled mess of run-on thoughts, all crammed together stream-of-consciousness style. I liked Case Histories reasonably well and hoped I'd enjoy the rest of the series, but no thank you. Brodie has not grown one whit as a character, and everyone else in this book (with possible exception of Louise) was just an annoying mess.