Review: Promising Writer
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
I enjoyed reading the first ten or fifteen pages of this book. It was very well written. For all its sparseness, it communicated volumes with just the right details. Most of the similes were spot on and fresh. It made me realize how much I've been missing things being written in the third person. I would have gladly read just this part of the book and enjoyed it as a short story.And yet, the highly descriptive setting-up of the story continued for well more than a third of the book, which definitely started to lag. Once things started happening, the pace picked up, and I was hopeful that the book was back on track, but once the pace really picked up during the last quarter of the book, it seemed like a completely different story than it had started out to be. I'm not saying that I didn't expect the main character's past to catch up with her, it's just that that past, when it arrived, seemed to bring with it an entirely different idiom than we'd started with. Oh, and it's all extremely violent. And the ending made me grumpy. But if you like violence told in a somewhat detached manner, and you don't mind books ending with purposefully unresolved plots, (or overly clever ones) this is your book.