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A review by iou
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
3.0
If the whole book were written like the final chapter, it would have been 5 stars. But it’s not.
What I really liked is that the main characters are not English or North Americans called jeff or jennifer, but brazilians called carlinhos, adriana, etc.. I think this gives a flavor to the story that I haven’t seen often.
The characters, when they actually did something, were really good, especially Adriana and Lucas. Wagner was confusing and I never got what was him about.
I have 2 issues with this book: first, most of the story is not my cup of tea, it felt more like a brazilian telenovela. That’s fine, just not particularly of my taste. The second is how it was written, in terms of the organization of the book. Each chapter is actually a bunch of mini chapters where the narration changes from one character to another and the only clue is the start of a paragraph. I found it confusing. Also the long descriptions of clothes, sex scenes and in narration without much else happening was kind of boring and it induced me to sleep.
As I stated previously, the final chapter (the 2 last actually) were really good, and almost made me wish to read the second book.
What I really liked is that the main characters are not English or North Americans called jeff or jennifer, but brazilians called carlinhos, adriana, etc.. I think this gives a flavor to the story that I haven’t seen often.
The characters, when they actually did something, were really good, especially Adriana and Lucas. Wagner was confusing and I never got what was him about.
I have 2 issues with this book: first, most of the story is not my cup of tea, it felt more like a brazilian telenovela. That’s fine, just not particularly of my taste. The second is how it was written, in terms of the organization of the book. Each chapter is actually a bunch of mini chapters where the narration changes from one character to another and the only clue is the start of a paragraph. I found it confusing. Also the long descriptions of clothes, sex scenes and in narration without much else happening was kind of boring and it induced me to sleep.
As I stated previously, the final chapter (the 2 last actually) were really good, and almost made me wish to read the second book.