Nami Mun's Miles From Nowhere is a bleak and depressing journey through several years of a young runaway Korean girl's life. Nami is a talented writer, but this particular story isn't a fun read. Not that it's supposed to be. Young Joon is the female lead which the story revolves around. In her early teens, she leaves he mentally I'll mother behind the way her father leaves them. After that, her life is filled with extremely bad choices. Every time you think she might get clean, she falls back into her unhappy routine. The ending doesn't make up for the fact that you really don't want to cheer her on. She's brought most of the problems on herself and keeps doing it. Sometimes the chapters don't seem to flow together as they should. Then again a few of the chapters were previously published in other media which could explain that. In the end, it was hard to give this book anything less than three stars because even though it was hard to like the characters and even harder to relate to them I found myself wrapped up in the story. Nami Mun is talented and I'd love to read more from her. Maybe just not something so dark next time. I loved the writing in this book. It's probably one of the best written books I've read in a long-time. But, since the story/characters were weak, I couldn't rate this more than a three. As said above, this book is really well written, which, overall, helped immerse me in the story. I also found it quite humorous in parts, whether that was intentional or not, it still added to the book. However, I do think the writing suffered a bit from purple prose. It was long-winded, and overly descriptive at times. It seemed there was more time spent on description, than actually telling the story. I liked the snap-shots we got into the MCs life. It was refreshing to read a book that wasn't told in straight chronological order. However, I did have a few issues with the style. Namely, because it skipped around so much we never really got to know the characters. There was a different character after almost every skip, and because of this it seemed we never really got close to any of the characters. I would have preferred if there was at least a few constant characters, which were adequately developed, instead of the setting/characters changing after every chapter. These extreme changes distanced me from the book and any of the characters.This brings me on to the main character. She was bland, emotionless and seemed to have no personality whatsoever. I know the time skips didn't exactly help this. It seemed we never really got to know her. Well, we did get to know her back story, but we never got to know her in present day. Not really. We were given no insight into her motivations and the why of her actions, it just seemed like she did things for the sake of it, like a robot not a person.Also, what happened to Wink? He showed a lot of promise as a character, and I was instantly interested in him, though he disappeared after one chapter, and there was nothing said about him again. I didn't expect him to be present throughout the entire book, but I at least expected some acknowledgement of him, even Knowledge got that. Overall, I would recommend this book if you want a unique book with a unique style, which is a relatively short read.
What do You think about Lejos De Ninguna Parte (2011)?
Writing was very good but I hated being immersed in that sad world.
—Pegasus
OH my god I have never hated a book that much!
—Rishelle
