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A review by circularcubes
Oriental Girls Desire Romance by Catherine Liu
2.0
I don't remember how I found this book in the first place, although Goodreads informs me that I added it to my to-read list on January 1st, 2013. I was then, as I am now, incredibly single, and was drawn to the title of the book, and almost nothing else.
I both deeply sympathized with and deeply failed to connect with the narrator of the novel, who spent a lot of the book feeling lost, and sleeping with and spending time people who didn't really care about her. I think it was the style of the book that lost me more than anything - it has a floaty, distant quality to it that I really strongly dislike in books. My favorite kinds of books draw me in and immerse me in another world, and this book is the exact opposite - it kept me at a distance, never quite letting me in. In a way, it mirrors the way the narrator lives her life, and although it would be interesting to maybe analyze the style of the book in an English class or what-have-you, as a single reader (hah - not in the sense of the title of the book) it just fell a bit flat.
I both deeply sympathized with and deeply failed to connect with the narrator of the novel, who spent a lot of the book feeling lost, and sleeping with and spending time people who didn't really care about her. I think it was the style of the book that lost me more than anything - it has a floaty, distant quality to it that I really strongly dislike in books. My favorite kinds of books draw me in and immerse me in another world, and this book is the exact opposite - it kept me at a distance, never quite letting me in. In a way, it mirrors the way the narrator lives her life, and although it would be interesting to maybe analyze the style of the book in an English class or what-have-you, as a single reader (hah - not in the sense of the title of the book) it just fell a bit flat.