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krakentamer 's review for:
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
by Claire North
hmmm.... well... ok.... so that was a book that I just read. I guess it's my fault for having such high hopes after [b:The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August|20706317|The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August|Claire North|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407712314s/20706317.jpg|25807847], which is one of my favorite books. There are 2 intriguing ideas here - the forgettable woman, and the Perfection app. They didn't have to be put in the same story, but the author made them work together... sort of. I'm not entirely sure that I would've read a story about the Perfection app, so that part was a bit of a distraction to me.
Distraction: shifting attention away from what you're reading.
Also - the reasoning behind the constant listing of synonyms and world facts was lost on me. (Please - as I'm down to the final 15 minutes of a book - please please please tell me how much O.J. Simpson's legal expenses were. And if you could compare them to the average annual salary of a select group of countries, that would be even better. And since I'm already asking - how about throwing in a comparison of expenditures on Ebola research???)
So all in all - I'm going to give this one a big MEH. A couple of interesting ideas fleshed out almost beyond where they needed to be, and a non-zero amount of triviality.
Distraction: shifting attention away from what you're reading.
Also - the reasoning behind the constant listing of synonyms and world facts was lost on me. (Please - as I'm down to the final 15 minutes of a book - please please please tell me how much O.J. Simpson's legal expenses were. And if you could compare them to the average annual salary of a select group of countries, that would be even better. And since I'm already asking - how about throwing in a comparison of expenditures on Ebola research???)
So all in all - I'm going to give this one a big MEH. A couple of interesting ideas fleshed out almost beyond where they needed to be, and a non-zero amount of triviality.