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a_ab 's review for:
Half Light
by Tayari Jones
It's short and a perfect size to check out the author, and, in my case, realize that I am not a fan of the writing style. The countless flashback interruptions annoyed me to no end.
Even as short as it is, it felt like it dragged on forever. The worst part was that flashbacks were minutely detailed with completely irrelevant stuff.
I realized what the author was doing - setting the scene and the mood and telling the story through seemingly inconsequential details because they matter. And on principle I do agree with that, but either it was badly done or extremely overdone, because I just could not bring myself to care about the way a pearl necklace feels on someone's neck while the main plot is stalled to pause and reflect on them pearls... The 32 pages felt like 320! By the end of it I couldn't care less about the painting or the sisters or the story.
Even as short as it is, it felt like it dragged on forever. The worst part was that flashbacks were minutely detailed with completely irrelevant stuff.
I realized what the author was doing - setting the scene and the mood and telling the story through seemingly inconsequential details because they matter. And on principle I do agree with that, but either it was badly done or extremely overdone, because I just could not bring myself to care about the way a pearl necklace feels on someone's neck while the main plot is stalled to pause and reflect on them pearls... The 32 pages felt like 320! By the end of it I couldn't care less about the painting or the sisters or the story.