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A review by leafblade
A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
1.0
This book fucking FLOPPED
First of all, it made me feel like liking girls is a dirty, teenage-only thing. And I like girls, and I fucking hate that it made me feel like that. Girls liking their best friend isn't drawing them naked time and time again over the years, isn't boycotting their relationships, isn't jerking off to the thought of being with them instead of their girlfriend, isn't looking under her shorts or cleavage at every chance you get. It's daydreaming about holding hands, and forehead kisses, and tv marathons, and coming out together. Its not strictly sex-related, and I'm so fucking angry that this has to be said.
Second, every single character was just so freaking stupid. If every teenage was as stupid as these, the life expectancy worldwide would be thirteen years, top.
Third of all, whAT THE FUCK WAS THAT CHANGE IN NARRATION. What was she trying to do with the change from first to third person, other than confuse the reader???? That's not how unreliable narrators work. Oh, and the ending. Jesus. Christ. That's not how unreliable narrators work, either. You can't just omit a whole fucking lot of what happened (WHILE NARRATING IN FIRST PERSON AS THE GIRL WHO SAW IT HAPPEN) and then be like oooohhhh I bet you weren't expecting this!!!!! No, of course we fucking weren't, because that wasn't there before and that's just not how mysteries work.
Also we had like maybe a dozen characters which we didn't get to know more than superficially, who weren't suspects nor useful for the story. And like, honestly, why.
I can't believe I put myself through this in less than 24 hours and survived.
Second #sapphicathon read, btw. Really sad it flopped.
First of all, it made me feel like liking girls is a dirty, teenage-only thing. And I like girls, and I fucking hate that it made me feel like that. Girls liking their best friend isn't drawing them naked time and time again over the years, isn't boycotting their relationships, isn't jerking off to the thought of being with them instead of their girlfriend, isn't looking under her shorts or cleavage at every chance you get. It's daydreaming about holding hands, and forehead kisses, and tv marathons, and coming out together. Its not strictly sex-related, and I'm so fucking angry that this has to be said.
Second, every single character was just so freaking stupid. If every teenage was as stupid as these, the life expectancy worldwide would be thirteen years, top.
Third of all, whAT THE FUCK WAS THAT CHANGE IN NARRATION. What was she trying to do with the change from first to third person, other than confuse the reader???? That's not how unreliable narrators work. Oh, and the ending. Jesus. Christ. That's not how unreliable narrators work, either. You can't just omit a whole fucking lot of what happened (WHILE NARRATING IN FIRST PERSON AS THE GIRL WHO SAW IT HAPPEN) and then be like oooohhhh I bet you weren't expecting this!!!!! No, of course we fucking weren't, because that wasn't there before and that's just not how mysteries work.
Also we had like maybe a dozen characters which we didn't get to know more than superficially, who weren't suspects nor useful for the story. And like, honestly, why.
I can't believe I put myself through this in less than 24 hours and survived.
Second #sapphicathon read, btw. Really sad it flopped.