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A review by sls2181
Bridge 108 by Anne Charnock
3.0
I really wanted to love this book. A fictional dystopian commentary on our climate change and immigration crisis’? Sign me up.
But these characters were extremely uninteresting and lacked engagement. I felt like the narration kept the readers at arms length for no particular reason. I never fully understood or empathized with any of them. That was also due to the extremely simplistic and almost austere writing style of Charnock.
I could see arguments that this tone was a choice within itself and also a commentary on how the future will be more based around the simplicity of bare bones survival but it didn’t make me wanna read it so there’s that.
But these characters were extremely uninteresting and lacked engagement. I felt like the narration kept the readers at arms length for no particular reason. I never fully understood or empathized with any of them. That was also due to the extremely simplistic and almost austere writing style of Charnock.
I could see arguments that this tone was a choice within itself and also a commentary on how the future will be more based around the simplicity of bare bones survival but it didn’t make me wanna read it so there’s that.