Mackenzie
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Fantastic short play with very interesting, authentic voice, as well as characters that could totally be expanded upon! I love its open-endedness.
4.5, I noticed a bug crawling on my arm while reading the final page and squashed it without hesitation... oops
Well, I made much better time on this one than the last...
A solid 4.5. 4.75? ...4.9? Okay fine I'll let it have the 5
Read my review on my blog here: https://theconsultingbookworm.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/the-palace-of-curiosities-rosie-garland/
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I listened to about 50 episodes of the show several years ago and loved them. But this was 400 pages of ruthless meandering.
You can control the pacing of a radio show in a way that is impossible to do in a novel. So, cramming strange images together consecutively did nothing but make me want to put the book down and have a nap. Some of it is clever and interesting, but you're unable to appreciate those bits when they're drowned out by a million other “weird for the sake of being weird” things.
I found myself skimming over paragraphs because of all the bizarre interjections that I can only assume were supposed to be funny. Instead, they just distracted me from the non-story.
This book is great for people who want a manual about the intricacies of Night Vale which, now that I think about it, would have been a cool idea in place of this.
Anyway, if you need me, I'll be waiting for the bus in the rain.
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Read my review on my blog here: https://theconsultingbookworm.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/vicious-v-e-schwab/
I've decided not to rate this. Yes, it was very long, but I was still engaged throughout the story. It could be repetitive and heavy-handed and downright strange but I wasn't disappointed by it. And yet I can't rate it so I won't. More than anything I'd like to hear about Mr. Chbosky's writing process for this. It would take me 20 years to write it too, damn.
Read my review on my blog here: https://theconsultingbookworm.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/station-eleven-emily-st-john-mandel/
