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A review by cupiscent
Snake Agent by Liz Williams
Did not finish book.
Giving up on page 65, mostly because I'm just not connecting with or hooked by it. I like our demon protag more than our human protag, but neither of them is really delivered in rich and interesting detail. I'm very interested in Inari, but she's delivered in dribs and drabs without deep emotional connection.
The book is ill-served (for me) by some other decisions. Weirdly, I find the typeset design unhelpful to my engagement - the text is almost full out to the edges of the page, which only emphasises a prose style that runs to long paragraphs without dialogue (and made me a little weary every time I turned a page). And I'm made very uncomfortable by the author's decision to use the deprecated and Western Wade-Giles romanisation, rather than the Chinese-preferred and official Pinyin. (I'm also made mildly uncomfortable by the decision to refer to the hero's Guanyin prayer beads as a rosary, though I appreciate it's possibly a technically correct usage.)
The book is ill-served (for me) by some other decisions. Weirdly, I find the typeset design unhelpful to my engagement - the text is almost full out to the edges of the page, which only emphasises a prose style that runs to long paragraphs without dialogue (and made me a little weary every time I turned a page). And I'm made very uncomfortable by the author's decision to use the deprecated and Western Wade-Giles romanisation, rather than the Chinese-preferred and official Pinyin. (I'm also made mildly uncomfortable by the decision to refer to the hero's Guanyin prayer beads as a rosary, though I appreciate it's possibly a technically correct usage.)