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A review by solaris
The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Update: As of Feb. 20th, I gave up on page 59. It was 60 pages too many.
I'm on page 19 of this book, partway through chapter 2, and this might become my fastest DNF ever, ahead even of Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey.
The book reads like the author was given unbridled access to a thesaurus and yet had no sense when not to use it. She will never use a plain word if she could instead use three obtuse multi-syllable words, and takes every opportunity to use odd or unusual sentence structure. This book reminds me of nothing more than a university essay by a student who knows their argument is weak, and who decides to bluff their way through with large and fancy words to hide its short-comings. Reading more than a couple pages at a time makes me cross-eyed. This book gives me headaches. So far I'm too stubborn to give it up, but considering I put it down twenty minutes ago and my eyes still hurt I don't think I'll have a choice.
I'm on page 19 of this book, partway through chapter 2, and this might become my fastest DNF ever, ahead even of Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey.
The book reads like the author was given unbridled access to a thesaurus and yet had no sense when not to use it. She will never use a plain word if she could instead use three obtuse multi-syllable words, and takes every opportunity to use odd or unusual sentence structure. This book reminds me of nothing more than a university essay by a student who knows their argument is weak, and who decides to bluff their way through with large and fancy words to hide its short-comings. Reading more than a couple pages at a time makes me cross-eyed. This book gives me headaches. So far I'm too stubborn to give it up, but considering I put it down twenty minutes ago and my eyes still hurt I don't think I'll have a choice.