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The Girl With No Reflection
by Keshe Chow
DID NOT FINISH: 34%
I rarely DNF books, but this book is 500 pages long and I could not see myself wading through another 300 pages just so I could give it a proper rating. This book had so much potential for me when I started it. I thought there were true flashes of beautiful descriptive writing, and the plot itself was interesting and I was curious enough to continue, but it just dissolved into a bit of a mess.
The pacing of this book also started off insanely. There's hardly any set up to this book, and it throws the reader into the action almost immediately. Everything you learn about the main character's past is told to you in the present and how it relates to whatever is happening in that moment. There is so much telling rather than showing, and that always bothers me in prose. The characters are also just so incredibly flimsy. You have no sense of who these characters are outside of their stereotypical roles. The logic of the characters also aren't consistent, and therefore the dialogue is also confusing and a lot of things seem out-of-character or not making sense for the moment.
I'm also sad because not only is the original cover of the book beautiful, I have a gorgeous special edition of this book that I'm probably going to get rid of now because I don't have space on my shelves to keep books I just don't care for!!! I really hope this author will continue to grow because there is some beautiful writing hidden in the recesses of this nonsensical execution. There are also some great ideas as well; I just wish the writing could have been better because this really could have been a lush and suspenseful novel!
The pacing of this book also started off insanely. There's hardly any set up to this book, and it throws the reader into the action almost immediately. Everything you learn about the main character's past is told to you in the present and how it relates to whatever is happening in that moment. There is so much telling rather than showing, and that always bothers me in prose. The characters are also just so incredibly flimsy. You have no sense of who these characters are outside of their stereotypical roles. The logic of the characters also aren't consistent, and therefore the dialogue is also confusing and a lot of things seem out-of-character or not making sense for the moment.
I'm also sad because not only is the original cover of the book beautiful, I have a gorgeous special edition of this book that I'm probably going to get rid of now because I don't have space on my shelves to keep books I just don't care for!!! I really hope this author will continue to grow because there is some beautiful writing hidden in the recesses of this nonsensical execution. There are also some great ideas as well; I just wish the writing could have been better because this really could have been a lush and suspenseful novel!