It is rather unusual to read two books back to back that have unique writing styles. The previous book was Transparent City by Ondjaki, you can see that review here.
This style is similar, but in this case there is one very, very long sentence that uses many commas, there are no full stops, there are no breaks or chapters. Even so, it is not too hard to understand.

Ali Zamir, the author writes about a 17 year old teenager who lives with her twin and her father, with some very unusual names, All-Knowing, Eel, Rattler, Voracious, Voila, Miraculous all living on the isolated island of Anjouan on the Comoro Islands. Eel is an interesting character, she knows what she wants, but this does not always turn out to be the best or the right thing.

The beginning of the book makes you feel like you are drowning which is a little suffocating which illustrates how good the writing is. Written in first person, from the point of view of Eel, we get to know her and her past, her family, her desires and woes. The interesting parts are how they twins for their names, along with small details of the history of the island. There is little dialogue, lots of descriptions and narrative.
It is not easy to review this book as there is little similar to it, but this book is well worth reading, even more so as it is a debut novel written by a relatively young male author who hit it on the nail writing about a 17 year old female teenager

This is a good solid young adult or coming of age book.
I give this book 4 stars.

DNF @ 20%

I wanted to like this book, after reading a few reviews I thought it was something I could get into. However, I just found that Eel’s endless stream of thought was off putting. I genuinely read about 3-4 pages about a mosquito and how she let one land on her ear to tell her a secret and ended up with an infection?!

The narrative is distracting from an actual storyline.

I struggled to finish this book. I was really looking forward to seeing how the author experimented with style considering the story is told in a single sentence, but I don’t think it suited the story or character as well as I’d expected. The sentences are structured in a way to make it easy to read, but I felt that this negated the effect of the one-sentence-story entirely. Instead it just makes the reader mentally swap commas for full stops and the story is read like any other.
I didn’t find the plot particularly riveting, and it was only until halfway through that I even acknowledged what the plot was.