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A review by porgyreads
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
3.75
The last 2ish chapters of this really fizzle out to the point where I wasn’t even skimming I was skipping sentences and it really upset me considering how much i enjoyed the rest.
Love that this basically has the exact same premise as Babel. Girl comes home to find writer (boyfriend) dead, steals the manuscript, publishes it and chaos ensues.
I could almost turn a blind eye to the male gaze of the Warners descriptions of Lanna because it was so obvious that Morvern was in love with her at one point. Though I don’t think Alan meant to portray such a homoerotic relationship between the two.
Originally gave it for stars but really I think it’s somewhere in between 3.75 and 4 for me because there were definitely elements of a 4 star read: see incredible use of demotic language but the end really was lacklustre and the more time that goes on the more I’m pissed off by that.
Love that this basically has the exact same premise as Babel. Girl comes home to find writer (boyfriend) dead, steals the manuscript, publishes it and chaos ensues.
I could almost turn a blind eye to the male gaze of the Warners descriptions of Lanna because it was so obvious that Morvern was in love with her at one point. Though I don’t think Alan meant to portray such a homoerotic relationship between the two.
Originally gave it for stars but really I think it’s somewhere in between 3.75 and 4 for me because there were definitely elements of a 4 star read: see incredible use of demotic language but the end really was lacklustre and the more time that goes on the more I’m pissed off by that.