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A review by _karinaiello_
Bangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
2.0
This was a book. It was fine.
Honestly, I really love the concept. The prose was lovely. But the mucked up timeline and huge assortment of characters was just too much to try to puzzle out. I feel like if each "main" character were given a short story, and the reader was allowed to hear their complete story all in one shot, it would have been much easier to even see the connections that were meant to be made by flipping in between stories and timelines. I read the entire first section, put the book on hold, came back and started over, and I still had no idea what was happening. I pushed through and as the stories progressed I could see how some of them connected, but there were too many characters to try to remember who was whose child and why I should care about them. I did mark on the table of contents who the main characters were for each chapter and maybe someday I'll go back and try to read the chapters out of order to get more of that "short story collection" feel out of it and see if that helps, but for now. This was a book. It was fine.
Honestly, I really love the concept. The prose was lovely. But the mucked up timeline and huge assortment of characters was just too much to try to puzzle out. I feel like if each "main" character were given a short story, and the reader was allowed to hear their complete story all in one shot, it would have been much easier to even see the connections that were meant to be made by flipping in between stories and timelines. I read the entire first section, put the book on hold, came back and started over, and I still had no idea what was happening. I pushed through and as the stories progressed I could see how some of them connected, but there were too many characters to try to remember who was whose child and why I should care about them. I did mark on the table of contents who the main characters were for each chapter and maybe someday I'll go back and try to read the chapters out of order to get more of that "short story collection" feel out of it and see if that helps, but for now. This was a book. It was fine.