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A review by cole_tergeist_boo
Odsburg by Matt Tompkins
3.0
A great collection of strange short stories. All the ideas and snippets were very original and fun to read, leaving me closing the book to sit and imagine the scenes following each chapter. Especially great if you’re familiar with coastal Oregon and Washington as the atmosphere there was captured perfectly in this book.
My only notes would be the “voices” of all the characters were the same as the narrator which took me out of the immersion a bit, as well as the attempt at writing from a female perspective not feeling authentic (“I’ve got pleasing curves in the proper places” definitely read as a male author’s attempt at writing a woman).
My only notes would be the “voices” of all the characters were the same as the narrator which took me out of the immersion a bit, as well as the attempt at writing from a female perspective not feeling authentic (“I’ve got pleasing curves in the proper places” definitely read as a male author’s attempt at writing a woman).