A review by kkxx2
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
3.0
It was good. The characters were well developed, the writing flowed (other than annoyingly addressing the reader directly), the plot kept me interested. I read the full 900~ pages at once.
But there was no point to the book.
It's not the ending that's the problem. Open-ended conclusions are fine, I prefer them in some cases.
There was no point to the book. It was written for the sake of being written, read for the sake of being read, shocking for the sake of being shocking.
The journey was fun but at the end of it all I'm left with nothing. I can take nothing from the book, and that, in my opinion, is worse that simply a bad book.
It's a good book with no point.
(Reading Sugar is like watching a child throw a cake in a lake. What a waste of all that potential characterization.)
But there was no point to the book.
It's not the ending that's the problem. Open-ended conclusions are fine, I prefer them in some cases.
There was no point to the book. It was written for the sake of being written, read for the sake of being read, shocking for the sake of being shocking.
The journey was fun but at the end of it all I'm left with nothing. I can take nothing from the book, and that, in my opinion, is worse that simply a bad book.
It's a good book with no point.
(Reading Sugar is like watching a child throw a cake in a lake. What a waste of all that potential characterization.)