A review by charminganachronism
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

3.0

i really wanted to love this; i liked it. it’s prose has the texture of what i’ll refer to now forevermore as “iowa writer’s workshop syndrome” — which is the tendency in modern lit to favor these extended, purple descriptions of things at the expense of telling an actual story. no idea if this author attended, and it isn’t unbearable to read even if it is an iowa product, but it’s certainly a book that thinks a lot more of it’s writing than it does of the experience of someone reading it.

or maybe I just have bad taste! could be.