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adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I've been excited to read this book for nearly a decade. When I finally got around to it, I nearly DNFed it numerous times just in the first several pages due to the writing "style". I had to look up whether this was intentional for whatever reason or maybe I simply picked up a really badly edited knock off version of the book or something.
The lack of quotation marks, apostrophes, other miscellaneous punctuation, along with numerous made up compound words and, worst of all, the plethora of run-on sentences made this extremely difficult and annoying for me to read. Other reviewers acknowledged this annoyance as well but said it gets better and the reader becomes used to it.
I didn't.
Regardless, I finished the book. The story itself was fine. I'll include a small excerpt that's on the third page of the book which would prove to be a good example of the writing "style" of the rest of book. If you can handle an entire book full of sentences like these, maybe you'll enjoy this book more than I did:
He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to the grocery cart and packed it and came back with their plates and some cornmeal cakes in a plastic bag and a plastic bottle of syrup. He spread the small tarp they used for a table on the ground and laid everything out and he took the pistol from his belt and laid it on the cloth and then he just sat watching the boy sleep.
The lack of quotation marks, apostrophes, other miscellaneous punctuation, along with numerous made up compound words and, worst of all, the plethora of run-on sentences made this extremely difficult and annoying for me to read. Other reviewers acknowledged this annoyance as well but said it gets better and the reader becomes used to it.
I didn't.
Regardless, I finished the book. The story itself was fine. I'll include a small excerpt that's on the third page of the book which would prove to be a good example of the writing "style" of the rest of book. If you can handle an entire book full of sentences like these, maybe you'll enjoy this book more than I did:
He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to the grocery cart and packed it and came back with their plates and some cornmeal cakes in a plastic bag and a plastic bottle of syrup. He spread the small tarp they used for a table on the ground and laid everything out and he took the pistol from his belt and laid it on the cloth and then he just sat watching the boy sleep.
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Cannibalism