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isabelle_the_bookdutchesses 's review for:
The Tenth Girl
by Sara Faring
DID NOT FINISH
DNF @ 15%
I had really high hopes for the Tenth Girl. The cover looks gorgeous and the synopsis sounded intriguing. I love psychological thrillers and really enjoyed the setting of this one. We get a historical setting in Argentina. Not a setting you see often and definitely what drew me to this one.
However, I could net get into the story. The writing wasn't for me, and I didn't like the second perspective at all. It seemed really weird to me and was just annoying and off putting right away. I felt really bad DNF'ing a review copy so I tried to get back into it multiple times. But unfortunately I couldn't get through.
The representation was something I thought was great to be included, however, after seeing reviews from people with actual knowledge of the representation this seems to be not so great. I'm a white, European girl so I can't speak about the accuracy but do agree it seems like indigenous people aren't painted in the greatest light in this novel and that is hurtful to say the least.
I had really high hopes for the Tenth Girl. The cover looks gorgeous and the synopsis sounded intriguing. I love psychological thrillers and really enjoyed the setting of this one. We get a historical setting in Argentina. Not a setting you see often and definitely what drew me to this one.
However, I could net get into the story. The writing wasn't for me, and I didn't like the second perspective at all. It seemed really weird to me and was just annoying and off putting right away. I felt really bad DNF'ing a review copy so I tried to get back into it multiple times. But unfortunately I couldn't get through.
The representation was something I thought was great to be included, however, after seeing reviews from people with actual knowledge of the representation this seems to be not so great. I'm a white, European girl so I can't speak about the accuracy but do agree it seems like indigenous people aren't painted in the greatest light in this novel and that is hurtful to say the least.