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Incendiary by Chris Cleave
2.0
Eh...
The author took a major narrative risk with this, his first book. It didn't really work, but it was ambitious. Written in second person, addressing none other than Osama Bin Laden, our narrator is a working class (and not very respectable) Londoner. She attempts to process loss but seems to get further lost in the process. Perhaps if she was a likable narrator, I would have found the book easier to read, but in addition to the second person and intentional bad grammar/bad speech of our narration for more than 200 pages, I couldn't really tolerate her on top of that. I don't recommend this one. There was a reason why we didn't hear about Chris Cleave until he wrote Little Bee.
The author took a major narrative risk with this, his first book. It didn't really work, but it was ambitious. Written in second person, addressing none other than Osama Bin Laden, our narrator is a working class (and not very respectable) Londoner. She attempts to process loss but seems to get further lost in the process. Perhaps if she was a likable narrator, I would have found the book easier to read, but in addition to the second person and intentional bad grammar/bad speech of our narration for more than 200 pages, I couldn't really tolerate her on top of that. I don't recommend this one. There was a reason why we didn't hear about Chris Cleave until he wrote Little Bee.