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jmack491 's review for:
We Contain Multitudes
by Sarah Henstra
Uuuggghhh.
You know when you're reading something, and it feels contrived and forced and completely unrealistic and you kind of hate it, except you also kind of like (ok, maybe really like) the characters and their story, so you put all that other crap aside and keep going because you just have to see what happens to them?
That's We Contain Multitudes. Except it eventually got to the point where even the characters became caricatures of themselves, and then I just really didn't like this book that much anymore.
Sigh. A really nice concept, but damn you, Henstra, for taking what could have been something simple and true and making it into this convoluted, hysterical, mind-numbing mess. You did peak my interest in re-reading Whitman, however. At least there's that.
You know when you're reading something, and it feels contrived and forced and completely unrealistic and you kind of hate it, except you also kind of like (ok, maybe really like) the characters and their story, so you put all that other crap aside and keep going because you just have to see what happens to them?
That's We Contain Multitudes. Except it eventually got to the point where even the characters became caricatures of themselves, and then I just really didn't like this book that much anymore.
Sigh. A really nice concept, but damn you, Henstra, for taking what could have been something simple and true and making it into this convoluted, hysterical, mind-numbing mess. You did peak my interest in re-reading Whitman, however. At least there's that.