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arieslofi 's review for:
Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
dnf'd @ 7%
the writing lacks too much for me to be able to keep reading this book. if it was simply the narration, i could have moved on easily, but the way dialogue is written made me roll my eyes repeatedly. i utterly despise dialogue that does not feel real. it's the thing that matters most to me when writing and when reading. if your characters do not feel like real people through dialogue, they will not feel like real people through narration, no matter how many times you show, or tell, me how flawed and three-dimensional they are. they will always be ink on paper to me.
the writing lacks too much for me to be able to keep reading this book. if it was simply the narration, i could have moved on easily, but the way dialogue is written made me roll my eyes repeatedly. i utterly despise dialogue that does not feel real. it's the thing that matters most to me when writing and when reading. if your characters do not feel like real people through dialogue, they will not feel like real people through narration, no matter how many times you show, or tell, me how flawed and three-dimensional they are. they will always be ink on paper to me.