A review by jeanreeee
A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
2.5
The whole first half of this is just teenage angst and pining, it's frankly exhausting and nearly made me DNF. Especially the pining. I'm not wild about repressing the gay and reading about body image issues either (nothing wrong with writing about it but I read to escape things like that).
But the second half was good, even if it kind of came out of left field. You think you know what's happened and then it something else happens and it makes you rethink your whole theory. If the Big EventTM had happened 100 pages earlier and we focused more on the after, it would have been a much better read.
The writing was however still very good, it was believable teenage behaviour. And the pacing in the second half was so quick but it worked well to keep you unsteady which contributed to the tension.
But the second half was good, even if it kind of came out of left field. You think you know what's happened and then it something else happens and it makes you rethink your whole theory. If the Big EventTM had happened 100 pages earlier and we focused more on the after, it would have been a much better read.
The writing was however still very good, it was believable teenage behaviour. And the pacing in the second half was so quick but it worked well to keep you unsteady which contributed to the tension.