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caitsidhe 's review for:
Little Star
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
I really should have liked this. I love horror books that explore the dark and vicious corners of female experience. I loved all the previous Lindqvist books I read.
But I struggled with this one. I kept putting it down and reading other books.
My main problems with it were these:
- Lindqvist works very hard to capture the thoughts and experiences of outcast girls, and mostly does well, but at the most important times it doesn't ring true.
- The writing was much more clumsy than I have come to expect. It may have been a poor translation. But there was far too much telling and repetition for my tastes.
I still finished it, but I thought it could have been better.
But I struggled with this one. I kept putting it down and reading other books.
My main problems with it were these:
- Lindqvist works very hard to capture the thoughts and experiences of outcast girls, and mostly does well, but at the most important times it doesn't ring true.
- The writing was much more clumsy than I have come to expect. It may have been a poor translation. But there was far too much telling and repetition for my tastes.
I still finished it, but I thought it could have been better.