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professoremdash 's review for:
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
by Yiming Ma
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
First, thank you to Mariner Books and NetGalley for the ARC. These opinions are my own given freely.
This book is not for me. That being said, it’s a great concept and definitely has an audience - it’s much more character driven and has a writing style that’s more literary than genre fiction, which is not what I was expecting.
I absolutely love the concept and the general overarching “plot”. I connected with some of the chapters more than others, but overall, I struggled to finish. I found the writing was too slow paced and far too much struggling to tell what was dialogue and what was a thought or an internal feeling. I also didn’t feel like I connected with any of the characters because it jumped around so much and didn’t always use names.
If you like speculative fiction with a heavy emphasis on character and writing style, this is for you.
This book is not for me. That being said, it’s a great concept and definitely has an audience - it’s much more character driven and has a writing style that’s more literary than genre fiction, which is not what I was expecting.
I absolutely love the concept and the general overarching “plot”. I connected with some of the chapters more than others, but overall, I struggled to finish. I found the writing was too slow paced and far too much struggling to tell what was dialogue and what was a thought or an internal feeling. I also didn’t feel like I connected with any of the characters because it jumped around so much and didn’t always use names.
If you like speculative fiction with a heavy emphasis on character and writing style, this is for you.