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kyouen 's review for:
The Light Fantastic
by Sarah Combs
A short review, with a longer one to (possibly) follow:
The Light Fantastic is a mess of a book that never gets to a point. With the seven narratives, we're meant to be given this interconnected tale with some sort of profound message. In reality, we're given a book with seven voices that don't differ from each other at all. It's written in a stream of consciousness style, but nothing is done to separate April from the Mastermind. If the chapter titles hadn't been there, I would have never been able to tell the difference between any of them.
I didn't feel that anything happened in this book either. The main events of the novel just felt very contrived in order to give the reader a message--which, as I said before, completely missed its mark with me. There was nothing special about this book. The events of the novel have been done before and they've been done in more emotionally invested ways.
Perhaps if the characters had actually had any sort of a personality I'd feel different. The author should have focused on building the characters instead of trying to give us a message. Luckily it was a short read, but I'm still disappointed I spent my time reading it. I kept waiting for it to get better. It sounded like such a good book.
The Light Fantastic is a mess of a book that never gets to a point. With the seven narratives, we're meant to be given this interconnected tale with some sort of profound message. In reality, we're given a book with seven voices that don't differ from each other at all. It's written in a stream of consciousness style, but nothing is done to separate April from the Mastermind. If the chapter titles hadn't been there, I would have never been able to tell the difference between any of them.
I didn't feel that anything happened in this book either. The main events of the novel just felt very contrived in order to give the reader a message--which, as I said before, completely missed its mark with me. There was nothing special about this book. The events of the novel have been done before and they've been done in more emotionally invested ways.
Perhaps if the characters had actually had any sort of a personality I'd feel different. The author should have focused on building the characters instead of trying to give us a message. Luckily it was a short read, but I'm still disappointed I spent my time reading it. I kept waiting for it to get better. It sounded like such a good book.