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A review by bestdressedbookworm
Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe
1.0
This was not for me.
Short story collections can often go 2 ways:
1 - you fall in love with the characters and you wish the story was longer because you just want more.
Or
2 - it’s overly written flowery prose that make absolutely no sense, there is no character development because it’s over written and there is no more time for character development and no one thinks the same way some authors write. You get lost and confused and start finding what you’re reading pointless, boring and cannot connect in anyway to anything that’s written on the page. And before you know it that story has ended and you’re starting that confusing journey all over again and you do this 10-12 times.
Unfortunately for me with this collection it was the ladder. I’m in a minority here with this author, I can see a lot of people found this brilliant. I feel that if you are going to only give me 6-12 pages to relate to a character, to make hearing about their story worth it, you have to work harder than this.
Short story collections can often go 2 ways:
1 - you fall in love with the characters and you wish the story was longer because you just want more.
Or
2 - it’s overly written flowery prose that make absolutely no sense, there is no character development because it’s over written and there is no more time for character development and no one thinks the same way some authors write. You get lost and confused and start finding what you’re reading pointless, boring and cannot connect in anyway to anything that’s written on the page. And before you know it that story has ended and you’re starting that confusing journey all over again and you do this 10-12 times.
Unfortunately for me with this collection it was the ladder. I’m in a minority here with this author, I can see a lot of people found this brilliant. I feel that if you are going to only give me 6-12 pages to relate to a character, to make hearing about their story worth it, you have to work harder than this.