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bookslapbritt 's review for:
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
The idea of the story really intrigued me, but overall it felt like it was just one of those works jumping onto a popular theme/controversy today. It claims to follow the lives of various women going through very real, threatening situations, defining what it is to be a woman in that world — However, all the characters blended together with little identifying traits, dulled personalities and sluggish approaches to their goals. Barely any of the characters felt real to me during the read, mostly falling flat. Along those lines, we are usually only given 2-3 pages with each character before we switch to another. Yes, it’s one of those trendy multiple POV books with chapters alternating which story we are following. There were 4 different POVs along with a 5th “story” usually in-between chapters. Unfortunately, I think there were too many and I never latched on. It was almost as if there was advice given to the writer: That the readers would have ADD if you stayed with someone too long and developed them.
Obviously this book was disappointing to me and I feel no reason to go any further in explaining why. I’d much rather let others who do enjoy it, enjoy it.
Obviously this book was disappointing to me and I feel no reason to go any further in explaining why. I’d much rather let others who do enjoy it, enjoy it.