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dr_dumpling 's review for:
Two Boys Kissing
by David Levithan
3.75 stars
This was an undeniably powerful book, but I docked a star and a quarter because Leviathan took a huge risk with how he chose to tell the narrative, and while it paid off in the end, it didn't work throughout the whole novel. For example, the summary on the book jacket is completely misleading--it says nothing about the most important part, the POV. If I hadn't read the brief summary on the copyright information page, I'd have been so confused. As it was, I was still bewildered by the we/us perspective, and I flipped back to the copyright page's summary before realization hit me in a huge "Ohhhhh." Personally, I also think that the lack of chapters didn't work too well, either, because the book would have been so much better organized, and easier to follow, if it'd been divided into chapters or if it hadn't jumped around so much.
This was an undeniably powerful book, but I docked a star and a quarter because Leviathan took a huge risk with how he chose to tell the narrative, and while it paid off in the end, it didn't work throughout the whole novel. For example, the summary on the book jacket is completely misleading--it says nothing about the most important part, the POV. If I hadn't read the brief summary on the copyright information page, I'd have been so confused. As it was, I was still bewildered by the we/us perspective, and I flipped back to the copyright page's summary before realization hit me in a huge "Ohhhhh." Personally, I also think that the lack of chapters didn't work too well, either, because the book would have been so much better organized, and easier to follow, if it'd been divided into chapters or if it hadn't jumped around so much.