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A review by cinzia
Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
2.0
I’m sorry, I can see there is some really important social commentary in this collection which I give so much kudos for, but the writing style and I did not get on. Just not my taste.
It’s a very distinctive style, very breezy and naturalistic; but perhaps too breezy for my dyslexic brain. I know that sounds weird, but I actually find it harder to read breezy books than hard ones because I tend to drift off too easily and not pay attention. There wasn’t anything that gripped my attention so I ended up disengaging and I couldn’t gel with the text. I didn’t engage with the writing so everything became empty and I wasn’t interested or invested in the collection.
I can see people really enjoying this read, the writer clearly has a skill for writing, but it was just a stylistic incompatibility for me.
It’s a very distinctive style, very breezy and naturalistic; but perhaps too breezy for my dyslexic brain. I know that sounds weird, but I actually find it harder to read breezy books than hard ones because I tend to drift off too easily and not pay attention. There wasn’t anything that gripped my attention so I ended up disengaging and I couldn’t gel with the text. I didn’t engage with the writing so everything became empty and I wasn’t interested or invested in the collection.
I can see people really enjoying this read, the writer clearly has a skill for writing, but it was just a stylistic incompatibility for me.