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A review by shonaningyo
Above All, Don't Look Back by Maïssa Bey
1.0
I simply cannot recommend this book.
Perhaps it's the fact that it's translated or it's due to some stylistic storytelling, but it is simply all over the place and barely coherent in terms of plot and pacing.
Writing in the view point of an unreliable narrator is something that requires skill and precision, two things that this book severely lacks. As one of my classmates put it "This book starts with nothing and ends with nothing". You are correct in that observation, Max.
It was stilted and the attempts to seem poetic often jumbled together into some lengthy monologue that only barely connected to what was happening, but still somehow did. The ending is in my opinion, utter shite and leaves me deeply unsatisfied considering the slog I had to go through in order to stomach this.
I think any other book, ANY book, would be better than this one. Trust me.
Perhaps it's the fact that it's translated or it's due to some stylistic storytelling, but it is simply all over the place and barely coherent in terms of plot and pacing.
Writing in the view point of an unreliable narrator is something that requires skill and precision, two things that this book severely lacks. As one of my classmates put it "This book starts with nothing and ends with nothing". You are correct in that observation, Max.
It was stilted and the attempts to seem poetic often jumbled together into some lengthy monologue that only barely connected to what was happening, but still somehow did. The ending is in my opinion, utter shite and leaves me deeply unsatisfied considering the slog I had to go through in order to stomach this.
I think any other book, ANY book, would be better than this one. Trust me.