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One Hundred and Fifty-Two Days by Giles Paley-Phillips
2.0
Unfortunately, this one wasn't for me.
I tend to struggle with novels written in verse if I feel like the format doesn't add anything to the story. Jason Reynolds' books are an excellent example to me of stories that are enriched by the choice to tell them in verse. This book, however, didn't seem to benefit from it. On the contrary, it really just felt like choppy prose with line breaks. This, combined with the fact that the story wasn't told linearly, meant that I had a really hard time getting attached to the characters or the plot.
I realized when I finished this book that if I hadn't read the synopsis beforehand I would've had a really hard time understanding what was going on. Very little happens in the book, and what does happen isn't explicitly explained. The synopsis helps to clarify things, but a lot of the things that made me interested in the synopsis were hardly present in the book. It focuses very little on the main character's struggle with not being able to see his mom, and instead on his fixation with his physiotherapist and his grandma's gambling problem.
I don't know. It was a quick read, but unfortunately I got very little out of it and I don't think I'll remember any details from this one for very long.
I tend to struggle with novels written in verse if I feel like the format doesn't add anything to the story. Jason Reynolds' books are an excellent example to me of stories that are enriched by the choice to tell them in verse. This book, however, didn't seem to benefit from it. On the contrary, it really just felt like choppy prose with line breaks. This, combined with the fact that the story wasn't told linearly, meant that I had a really hard time getting attached to the characters or the plot.
I realized when I finished this book that if I hadn't read the synopsis beforehand I would've had a really hard time understanding what was going on. Very little happens in the book, and what does happen isn't explicitly explained. The synopsis helps to clarify things, but a lot of the things that made me interested in the synopsis were hardly present in the book. It focuses very little on the main character's struggle with not being able to see his mom, and instead on his fixation with his physiotherapist and his grandma's gambling problem.
I don't know. It was a quick read, but unfortunately I got very little out of it and I don't think I'll remember any details from this one for very long.