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A review by amyglbarker
Dark Skies: A Journey Into the Wild Night by Tiffany Francis-Baker
3.0
I’m pretty torn with this one & will say I hope Tiffany Francis-Baker continues to write because I would be intrigued to see how she develops & definitely think she has the talent and room for growth.
That being said, I was quite disappointed with this! I’m giving it 2.5 stars because she has a good knowledge of nature and literature, and picked interesting topics, but the actual writing was very amateur (for whatever genre it was supposed to be, which it didn’t achieve as it was too clunky and meandering.) Potentially interesting points were cut across by quite trite personal anecdotes, which I could have appreciated if they weren’t irrelevant to the story. A lot of the musings she brought up were extremely surface level and though I think she has the capacity for deeper thought, it wasn’t brought up here. Also I think my A Level English teacher would have chastised me for half the sentences she writes because they were quite shallow. I’m sorry I wanted to like this but I just!!!! Found myself disappointed!!!!
That being said, I was quite disappointed with this! I’m giving it 2.5 stars because she has a good knowledge of nature and literature, and picked interesting topics, but the actual writing was very amateur (for whatever genre it was supposed to be, which it didn’t achieve as it was too clunky and meandering.) Potentially interesting points were cut across by quite trite personal anecdotes, which I could have appreciated if they weren’t irrelevant to the story. A lot of the musings she brought up were extremely surface level and though I think she has the capacity for deeper thought, it wasn’t brought up here. Also I think my A Level English teacher would have chastised me for half the sentences she writes because they were quite shallow. I’m sorry I wanted to like this but I just!!!! Found myself disappointed!!!!