A review by magenta_menace
it hurts to breathe: a novella by Jharna Sutaria

1.0

thanks to netgalley for a free arc of this title. i promise i’m not being contrarian rating this so low, because the content represented in this story is important seen in literature, but here it was done in such a shoddy fashion. first, the profound suspension of belief needed to get through this is astounding. no college grad immediately gets a job as an associate professor or working at their own law firm. no current college student is going to class in the morning and immediately going to work at school teaching their own curriculum that isn’t school sanctioned. i know they’re small details but these things make these characters feel make-believe and therefore not able to be connected with at all. there was very little sentence variety and while the sparseness may have worked for some, for me i feel it undid narrative progress.