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mynameisgreg 's review for:
Money to Burn
by Asta Olivia Nordenhof
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Money to Burn is a strange novel (the first in a series of seven) about the violence of capitalism on the many and the violence of domestic abuse on one woman.
Things are hazy switching perspective between Maggie and Kurt, a couple in an unhappy and occasionally violent marriage. But there’s also an unnamed narrator who sometimes pops up in a dream-like way, other times like an investigative journalist digging into the dirt of a real-life disaster where 150 people died in a fire on a ferry between Denmark and Norway. Confusing. But also, it dances and skips between all these modes of storytelling in a really engaging way.
Did I love it enough to think I will definitely read the next six instalments? I don’t know. Maybe? I’m invested enough in the strange sadness of Money to Burn to consider it.
Things are hazy switching perspective between Maggie and Kurt, a couple in an unhappy and occasionally violent marriage. But there’s also an unnamed narrator who sometimes pops up in a dream-like way, other times like an investigative journalist digging into the dirt of a real-life disaster where 150 people died in a fire on a ferry between Denmark and Norway. Confusing. But also, it dances and skips between all these modes of storytelling in a really engaging way.
Did I love it enough to think I will definitely read the next six instalments? I don’t know. Maybe? I’m invested enough in the strange sadness of Money to Burn to consider it.