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This is just not for me. I am not a fan of teenage narrators - especially outside of YA. Also their dialogue is so out of the realm of how actual young teens speak. #dnf #hailthebail
A #roll100 off the TBR!

This was my #BookSpin for November. The writing was just bad and though a talking cat in the first chapter got me interested enough to read on, no cats, talking or otherwise, appeared again after that, and I jumped ship around 35 pages in. I didn't care about the MC at all. #HailTheBail

The writing style is just not clicking with me. #dnf at 30% #hailthebail #bookspin pick off the TBR

Just didn't hold my interest - #HailTheBail

84/80

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Thanks to the publisher and Libro.fm for the ALC of this book! There is so much to love about this: BIPOC characters, realness of characters, the dreamy quality to the first chunk of book- I was really into it. However, I am VERY susceptible to second hand embarrassment and fear. I‘ve read the myths. I know what happens. I‘m sick to my stomach for Medusa and I can‘t go on with this right now. This is a me problem and not an I, Medusa problem.

This is my second Mary Roach book, and I just don't think she's for me. I almost felt like her writing is overly familiar; like I'm expected to understand her personality and drive and humor right out the gate. Therefore, I never really get to know her, and it is hard to connect to her voice in the book. There also didn't seem to be a purpose to her choices of topics other than her whims or whomever would talk with her, unless that's just the ARC.

That was a flora and fauna snooze fest, but I got another bingo 😁

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I could tell very early on the writing was simply not for me. It was so repetitive in telling about rot and decay to create a spooky atmosphere, but it was too much and just didn‘t work for me.

“Hazelthorn has barely dragged its decayed corpse into the 21st century…”

“Beyond it, the inky dark of the hallway stretches like a diseased throat…”

“The dark stares back, mouth wet.”🤔

“His stomach is full of curdled cream and rotted violet stems…”

Such a great title, but I didn't enjoy the style. She's very much saying “this is how it was,“ and it really wasn't, for me. #HailTheBail

I may come back to this, but it is not keeping my attention. I also find the romance very lacking.
#hailthebail