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limemil 's review for:
The Queen's Gambit
by Walter Tevis
solid it's just kinda annoying that this has provided me with the delusion that i am actually a master in chess and could beat all of these players with my eyes closed when i can barely remember the moves that all the pieces are allowed to make.
the chess scenes were the most interesting which was kinda shocking because honestly the other scenes were okay and who the fuck thinks about chess scenes as interesting? trust me they were interesting in this book. especially in comparison to the other scenes because those lacked depth which was a shame because at some point it felt like they would expand the backstory of a character and explain their role in the book and deepen the relationship between them and beth but it didn't actually happen ever.
which i thought was slightly disappointing because i did like the characters and i liked the different connections between them and beth but it just fell flat sometimes. idk i think it was probably the way beth herself was written because her thought process wasn't always the most interesting to read which in turn made most of her inner monologue about other characters less interesting and that ended up in making said characters less interesting.
the chess scenes were the most interesting which was kinda shocking because honestly the other scenes were okay and who the fuck thinks about chess scenes as interesting? trust me they were interesting in this book. especially in comparison to the other scenes because those lacked depth which was a shame because at some point it felt like they would expand the backstory of a character and explain their role in the book and deepen the relationship between them and beth but it didn't actually happen ever.
which i thought was slightly disappointing because i did like the characters and i liked the different connections between them and beth but it just fell flat sometimes. idk i think it was probably the way beth herself was written because her thought process wasn't always the most interesting to read which in turn made most of her inner monologue about other characters less interesting and that ended up in making said characters less interesting.