A review by uuuultraviolennnnt
A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene

Did not finish book. Stopped at 3%.

This book has a shit voice and it’s honestly disorientating— pick one, please. third person or first. it’s not hard. The third-but-somehow-first-person-when-it’s-convenient-for-the-tone feels like cheating, in a way that I cannot get behind. Also the descriptions are clumsy, taking away from the action with details a third person narrator would not take note of, unless it’s first, I wouldn’t know at this point, and the alliterations have me mad because they are so un-beautiful, not in an abject way, just a crude way. and the crudness seeps past understandable character-building into gross descriptions. It’s not pretty. It’s also mildly racist, but that’s was genuinely the least of this book’s issues. I could not get past the 8th page, going from Meiko Kawakami to this felt like a punishment. I understand now why it was donated to my local free bookstore.