A review by frasersimons
The Promise by Damon Galgut

Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.

Gave it 50 pages and bailed. My brain does not like this perspective or style. It’s like water off a duck’s back. Nothing sticks with the infodump right off the bat. Too much of the wrong kind of information and the prose is interested in everything about a scene or person or situation that I am not. It’s certainly different, so I can see why people were engaged by it. But, for me, it made everything feel less rendered and sketchy.