A review by girlglitch
A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson

2.0

I picked up this book hoping for a whimsical family epic in the vein of Kate Atkinson, and in many ways A System delivers. For a while I really couldn’t understand when I wasn’t hooked when the story had so many great ingredients. But it lacks that essential element: charm. Sadly, it’s overlong, the magic realism is laborious and the characters unlikeable. So even though the prose is lively and fluent, and I can’t fault the translation, I found myself skimming sections, desperate to find a bit that would catch my interest. It never really happened.

Despite an interesting concept, sadly this was a miss for me.

*Thank you to Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review*