sarah_moran 's review for:

The Removed by Brandon Hobson

2.0

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2.5 stars--I loved the concept of this novel, but the execution was not great for me. The prose was dry and repetitive, and Hobson is yet another male author that should just avoid writing female characters (especially in the first-person). The chapters with Sonja sounded just like a man writing a woman in a truly terrible way. It was so bad that I found myself laughing out of sheer horror and eye-rolling annoyance. Truthfully, I think it was these sections that pulled me so jarringly out of the experience. Overall, I feel like it lacked depth, wish is odd to say about a book focused on such important subjects.