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A review by luhsoona
The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi Lee
2.0
This was disappointing.
Look I think this book can be enjoyed by a lot of people and probably will be based on the mental illness rep alone but I found it very exhausting. Like the narrative voice exhausted me so deeply, because of how real it was for someone with GAD and OCD. I think if this was all this was I would rate it 3 stars but still recommend.
The pacing in this book feels like a bunch of novellas strung together and not a coherent plot, even though there is kind of a plot? There? It just drags and drags though, but in a choppy, weird way. It just feels like we're on some checklist of characters we have to check in on. Maybe it's because the reasons for the plot happening are contrived, convoluted, and make no sense but I couldn't get into it.
I think I would have enjoyed Adrian in a different setting, a different genre, but I'm not sure what. 2 stars because I got through it but didn't enjoy my experience at all. I'm just having a hard time with him as a narrator, it's just...not fun. Maybe it's not supposed to be? However as someone who's had her own journey with anxiety, I felt like a lot of it was behind me, thing I didn't feel the need to hear anymore and didn't benefit me. I think it'd benefit someone else who needs to know someone like them exists, but I'm older and more confident, so as I think this is the strongest point in the book it's also more exhausting, and I wasn't tuned in for an exhausting read.
Look I think this book can be enjoyed by a lot of people and probably will be based on the mental illness rep alone but I found it very exhausting. Like the narrative voice exhausted me so deeply, because of how real it was for someone with GAD and OCD. I think if this was all this was I would rate it 3 stars but still recommend.
The pacing in this book feels like a bunch of novellas strung together and not a coherent plot, even though there is kind of a plot? There? It just drags and drags though, but in a choppy, weird way. It just feels like we're on some checklist of characters we have to check in on. Maybe it's because the reasons for the plot happening are contrived, convoluted, and make no sense but I couldn't get into it.
I think I would have enjoyed Adrian in a different setting, a different genre, but I'm not sure what. 2 stars because I got through it but didn't enjoy my experience at all. I'm just having a hard time with him as a narrator, it's just...not fun. Maybe it's not supposed to be? However as someone who's had her own journey with anxiety, I felt like a lot of it was behind me, thing I didn't feel the need to hear anymore and didn't benefit me. I think it'd benefit someone else who needs to know someone like them exists, but I'm older and more confident, so as I think this is the strongest point in the book it's also more exhausting, and I wasn't tuned in for an exhausting read.