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A review by amande9727
Little Fish by Casey Plett
1.0
I read a third of it only, but I'm gonna stop here. I didn't know what to expect, but definitely not something so depressing :/
The writing itself isn't working for me. There's more "slice of life" than an actual plot for now, which could be fine, but it's so... emotionless. It's a sequence of action the MC do, very factually... Maybe it's supposed to reflect the state of apathy of the MC, but it doesn't make the reading very fun.
And since the summary and comment on the back of the book was promising a good insight on the life of a trans women, all the insight I'm getting here is that it's really really sad...
(Spoilers)
The MC has a clear drinking problem, seems generally pretty apathetic except for the occasional burst of anger, find herself in situations with guys that I personally find pretty creepy but it doesn't seems to be a problem, except for the 2 sexual assault that have happened in only 100 pages...
I'm no psychiatrist, but there seems to be a lot of repressed issues there... Hopefully it get addressed (and solved?) by the end of the book, but I don't have the energy to go through all the pages that are left.
I'm not criticizing the fact that it's sad, but personally if it's sad And not super well written, I'm just not going to enjoy reading the book.
One last thing that confused me, was that her grandfather wasn't actually trans (the thing the plot is supposed to be about), but gay. But she's gonna investigate anyway, not out of lgbt solidarity, but because he might be trans anyway as "people didn't understand the difference themselves" back then?... What? I'm pretty sure that the people in question could understand that "I like boys" isn't equivalent to "so I'm a girl". Thats kinda what being gay is about actually...
I suppose that the author is gonna give her reason, because the story would already be over if that wasn't the case, but I'm really confused by the logic here.
Actually, General confusion is the main feeling this book left me with. Hope the MC get better, though.
The writing itself isn't working for me. There's more "slice of life" than an actual plot for now, which could be fine, but it's so... emotionless. It's a sequence of action the MC do, very factually... Maybe it's supposed to reflect the state of apathy of the MC, but it doesn't make the reading very fun.
And since the summary and comment on the back of the book was promising a good insight on the life of a trans women, all the insight I'm getting here is that it's really really sad...
(Spoilers)
The MC has a clear drinking problem, seems generally pretty apathetic except for the occasional burst of anger, find herself in situations with guys that I personally find pretty creepy but it doesn't seems to be a problem, except for the 2 sexual assault that have happened in only 100 pages...
I'm no psychiatrist, but there seems to be a lot of repressed issues there... Hopefully it get addressed (and solved?) by the end of the book, but I don't have the energy to go through all the pages that are left.
I'm not criticizing the fact that it's sad, but personally if it's sad And not super well written, I'm just not going to enjoy reading the book.
One last thing that confused me, was that her grandfather wasn't actually trans (the thing the plot is supposed to be about), but gay. But she's gonna investigate anyway, not out of lgbt solidarity, but because he might be trans anyway as "people didn't understand the difference themselves" back then?... What? I'm pretty sure that the people in question could understand that "I like boys" isn't equivalent to "so I'm a girl". Thats kinda what being gay is about actually...
I suppose that the author is gonna give her reason, because the story would already be over if that wasn't the case, but I'm really confused by the logic here.
Actually, General confusion is the main feeling this book left me with. Hope the MC get better, though.