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Unteachable
by Elliot Wake
3.5 stars -- having a hard time deciding to round up or down. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that book. It was a bit out of my wheelhouse (as my husband would say). It was like an artsy movie. I can't watch many of them...it doesn't mean I won't like it, but it's not exactly who I am. The writing in this book was very...not flowery....fancy. Shit, I don't know how to describe it. Just so many metaphors, and descriptions that made me feel dull and lame b/c I just like normal straightforward stuff. I mean, I didn't even get through the first chapter before I set this book aside the first time I tried to read it. It did eventually get better for me, and I began to appreciate the crazy comparisons and beautiful flowy descriptions. But it's not the kind of writing that I can read a lot, b/c it's just not the kind of person I am.
So, that was a whole paragraph about nothing. I guess this book had me all waffly. It ended with a total high...I LOVED the ending. It made everything else that had gone on just sort of fit and feel epically beautiful and crazy and like it meant something. But up until that last chapter, I wasn't sure. So to give a higher star rating would have ignored how I felt the rest of the time. Which was conflicted. Maybe the characters were too real, and the situation too uncomfortable... I guess it was more raw than I was expecting too. It was very in your face about what it was...could even be categorized erotica in some senses b/c it was quite graphic in that sense. In the end, Maise just wasn't a character that I could relate to. Which I guess I don't always need to, but I prefer to have something there, you know? And in the end the discomfort of the relationship kept me from loving the good moments of it. So yeah. And that's all I have to say about that....
No wait, I want to give a shout out to the side characters. They may not have had huge roles, but I appreciated them (from Wesley and Siohban (which I never know how to spell/pronounce) to even Park).
So, that was a whole paragraph about nothing. I guess this book had me all waffly. It ended with a total high...I LOVED the ending. It made everything else that had gone on just sort of fit and feel epically beautiful and crazy and like it meant something. But up until that last chapter, I wasn't sure. So to give a higher star rating would have ignored how I felt the rest of the time. Which was conflicted. Maybe the characters were too real, and the situation too uncomfortable... I guess it was more raw than I was expecting too. It was very in your face about what it was...could even be categorized erotica in some senses b/c it was quite graphic in that sense. In the end, Maise just wasn't a character that I could relate to. Which I guess I don't always need to, but I prefer to have something there, you know? And in the end the discomfort of the relationship kept me from loving the good moments of it. So yeah. And that's all I have to say about that....
No wait, I want to give a shout out to the side characters. They may not have had huge roles, but I appreciated them (from Wesley and Siohban (which I never know how to spell/pronounce) to even Park).