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Secrets Don't Stay Buried by J. D. Mills
1.75
I received an ARC of this in return for an honest review.
The first thing I want to touch upon is Lennon our protagonist is deaf, which I found a nice touch and a point of view I was excited to explore, imagining the uniqueness of this and the added difficulty it would bring to the writing, The author did a good job early on before seemingly abandoning it, there are large portions of the book where it seems to be simply forgotten. Lennon (and everyone she encouters) just seems to communicate without her disability ever being an issue or even addressed. It would have been nice to even get one scene where she doesn't know what's going on or feels vulnerable because of her disability. I also felt the book plodded along and just wasn't very engaging. Then we get to our final set piece and I don't know what happened but at the end of page 271 and the start of page 272 it feels like we're missing a section of the story, It's extremely disjointed and confusing but by then I was checked out anyway.
The first thing I want to touch upon is Lennon our protagonist is deaf, which I found a nice touch and a point of view I was excited to explore, imagining the uniqueness of this and the added difficulty it would bring to the writing, The author did a good job early on before seemingly abandoning it, there are large portions of the book where it seems to be simply forgotten. Lennon (and everyone she encouters) just seems to communicate without her disability ever being an issue or even addressed. It would have been nice to even get one scene where she doesn't know what's going on or feels vulnerable because of her disability. I also felt the book plodded along and just wasn't very engaging. Then we get to our final set piece and I don't know what happened but at the end of page 271 and the start of page 272 it feels like we're missing a section of the story, It's extremely disjointed and confusing but by then I was checked out anyway.