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A strong start with this novel, the first 100 pages were utterly brilliant. I am not one that needs a novel to follow a strict structure, but my main problem with this book is that it utterly, and literally, lost the plot in the middle. It just careens around, smashing itself to pieces, so much so that the sporadic fantastic writing then becomes not enough to glue it together.
Maybe it is an experience thing, or an editing thing, but I am a little perplexed by it, it could have so easily been a ...more
Maybe it is an experience thing, or an editing thing, but I am a little perplexed by it, it could have so easily been a ...more
Loved this novel! Someone said that you could not get that voice out of your head for days afterwards and that is so true. Dealing with so many heartbreaking and tenuous subjects with a sense of grace and beauty makes this a true gem.
Oct 04, 2014
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
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