It has already been talked about in here but wow I haven’t disliked a book so much in years.
Can people tell me what they liked about it? Why is he giving us Orkideh’s perspective after she has died in the narrative? And on that note, how is the narrative perspective of any of these characters justified at all? The lack of any sort of justified narrative distance of any of the narrators (except for maybe Cyrus a little bit) is absolutely jarring for me. And why does it feel like every character is plucked straight from a cookie cutter version of a person? Almost no one felt super like able to me except for maybe Zee and even he felt more just like a narrative tool than a person. I have so many questions about specific things in the book that didn’t land for me. Nearly every time two characters were talking in this book it felt so forced and cringey. How did this get so many accolades?
Sorry I’m just needing to rant a little. Based on what I’ve seen most of you like this book but man it just didn’t cut it at all for me. Seems like a novel for a creative writing workshop not a National Book Award finalist
by itry2write