A review by _pickle_
The Accidental by Ali Smith
4.0
A brilliant book: with clear, vibrant writing. There's a real sense of something being different about this book. There's a freshness to it (a freshness that feels as strong now as it presumably did in 2007) that is appealing and quite exciting.
A book like this could easily be awful, but Smith knows when to pull back or change course to prevent this happening. My only complaint is that sometimes I wanted things pared back to a sharper level. One can get a bit lost in the garden of Smith's writings. It's a beautiful garden, yet the reader isn't always helped sufficiently.
A book like this could easily be awful, but Smith knows when to pull back or change course to prevent this happening. My only complaint is that sometimes I wanted things pared back to a sharper level. One can get a bit lost in the garden of Smith's writings. It's a beautiful garden, yet the reader isn't always helped sufficiently.