A review by carmenghia
The Last Kings of Sark by Rosa Rankin-Gee
2.0
This book is more of a series of descriptive captures of moments and emotions than anything else. That part is pretty cool, but what I struggled with was a complete lack of plot or direction or for those moments and emotions to add up to anything.
The first half is a sort of manic pixie dream girl bromance, and I thought, well this isn't really my bag but okay. Then there's a threesome between the three mains and that's probably the best part of the book because it trashes the love triangle trope and gives all the characters everything. The book could have ended here.
The second half of the book was an absolute disaster. The author is purposely vague about which characters are in a scene or which are being referenced when others speak, and there's a lot of time jumps, a completely meaningless death of a toddler for no story-driven reason, and I'm supposed to believe that in a world with text messages, emails, and social media that these three just can't reconnect despite their great melancholy need to do so. The last half of the book was really awkward and meaningless.
The first half is a sort of manic pixie dream girl bromance, and I thought, well this isn't really my bag but okay. Then there's a threesome between the three mains and that's probably the best part of the book because it trashes the love triangle trope and gives all the characters everything. The book could have ended here.
The second half of the book was an absolute disaster. The author is purposely vague about which characters are in a scene or which are being referenced when others speak, and there's a lot of time jumps, a completely meaningless death of a toddler for no story-driven reason, and I'm supposed to believe that in a world with text messages, emails, and social media that these three just can't reconnect despite their great melancholy need to do so. The last half of the book was really awkward and meaningless.