Member Review
Review by
Sara B, Reviewer
Mrs. S by K. Patrick
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC ebook for an unbiased review.
This was a book that on the face of it, I should've loved from start to finish. It was touted as an LGBTQIA novel. Sadly, I had numerous problems with the book. First and foremost, the writing style. It made it far harder than it should have been to read. Why? The complete lack of speech marks, quotation marks, even line breaks between paragraphs, that were on occasion quite long, meant it felt like a burden to read, because all my concentration was on trying to maintain who said what and when.
I'm not against this style. But in moderation. This was not in moderation. Imagine reading a whole book with nothing but words, whether description, individual dialogue (internal or external) or dialogue between other characters, yet nothing to break it up. Nothing to indicate who was speaking when.
I honestly nearly didn't finish the book, which is a rare event.
The story premise itself wasn't without merit. And honestly that's the one thing keeping me from saying 1 star. As it is, I'm loathe to even give it 3 stars because of how difficult it was to read and how close I came to not finishing it, so 2 stars it is.
It was a slog. Not a book I would pick up again, nor recommend. I hate giving such poor reviews when I know any writer puts a lot of effort into their writing. However, I also can't be sentimental on how this made me feel as the reader.
Great idea. Poorly executed.
2/5 stars 🌟
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC ebook for an unbiased review.
This was a book that on the face of it, I should've loved from start to finish. It was touted as an LGBTQIA novel. Sadly, I had numerous problems with the book. First and foremost, the writing style. It made it far harder than it should have been to read. Why? The complete lack of speech marks, quotation marks, even line breaks between paragraphs, that were on occasion quite long, meant it felt like a burden to read, because all my concentration was on trying to maintain who said what and when.
I'm not against this style. But in moderation. This was not in moderation. Imagine reading a whole book with nothing but words, whether description, individual dialogue (internal or external) or dialogue between other characters, yet nothing to break it up. Nothing to indicate who was speaking when.
I honestly nearly didn't finish the book, which is a rare event.
The story premise itself wasn't without merit. And honestly that's the one thing keeping me from saying 1 star. As it is, I'm loathe to even give it 3 stars because of how difficult it was to read and how close I came to not finishing it, so 2 stars it is.
It was a slog. Not a book I would pick up again, nor recommend. I hate giving such poor reviews when I know any writer puts a lot of effort into their writing. However, I also can't be sentimental on how this made me feel as the reader.
Great idea. Poorly executed.
2/5 stars 🌟
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