I'm torn about my rating on this. I didn't hate the book, but I didn't love it. Still a three feels like a disservice, while I don't feel comfortable rating it four. Dilemmas. The main character has lost their memory. Since the story is told largely through their perspective it means the reader is fairly lost as well. While this might make us feel sympathetic to the main character, it was slightly obnoxious. I will probably still pick up the next book see what happens. This book is so poorly written that at times I stopped reading the actual story and just noted how many badly composed sentences were on each page. In spite of that, and even with an actual attempt to follow the plot (which was a bit like following a drunk friend who is SURE the way home is just THIS WAY), I never managed to figure out what the hell was going on. In fact, I found it so hilariously awful that I almost recommended it to a friend who reads books that are fun to hate. The problem? It wasn't fun, hating this thing. It made me sad. Sad that books like this manage to get published. Basically, there is this girl who is imagining herself in a coffin. Then she is on a train with a snotty nurse and a crying baby. Then there is the train platform, where everyone is staring at her, and no one else boards a train, and then we go into the bizarre and nonsensical town of Gamin. We get to meet the founder of Gamin, Merrick, who is kind of a dick. This girl, the main character, whose name might be Ellis or Ellie or Janelle (seriously), wanders around in a daze meeting people, all the time being offended at things in the manner of an uptight Victorian girl. I can't even remember how many times we got to hear how ugly Ellie/Ellis thought her traveling clothes were. Who gives a good god damn? This book would have been torture for an adept mystery reader. Red herrings everywhere, and none of them meant a damn thing. I was hoping for a quick trashy young adult book. I ended up with the dog's breakfast of books.
What do You think about Unwept (2014)?
At the request of the publisher, this review is being held until closer to the publication date.
—May
At the request of the publisher, this review is being held until closer to the publication date
—poolie
It started out good but quickly got confused to what was happening.
—Ann
