A review by gandalf
Unraveller by Frances Hardinge

2.0

It physically pains me to rate a Hardinge book so low, but I've finally admitted to myself after, what, a year?, that I just cannot force myself to finish this. It is just too disappointing. If this book had any other author's name on the cover, I probably would have enjoyed it, but for a Hardinge novel, it comes off as an unpolished first draft. The characters and story lack her usual complexity, and even the writing itself feels too bland and simplistic. I really hope this is just an outlier and not a signal of the way her writing style is progressing.