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A review by coleycole
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
1.0
Soooo... don't use trans people as an afterthought plot point, and a violent one at that...??? Disliked that a lot. Also, definitely significant white savior narrative happening here. I think the author tried to avoid this, but it still is there.
A lot of the reviews complained about the dialogue - very flapper/gun moll, and I am ok with books that play with dialogue in a way that isn't necessarily fully realistic. I enjoyed the "then" sections in NY the most, where the story wasn't fraught with perspective issues...
The concept has a lot of interesting threads but I wasn't happy with where they all went...
A lot of the reviews complained about the dialogue - very flapper/gun moll, and I am ok with books that play with dialogue in a way that isn't necessarily fully realistic. I enjoyed the "then" sections in NY the most, where the story wasn't fraught with perspective issues...
The concept has a lot of interesting threads but I wasn't happy with where they all went...