A review by pebbletown
Muse by Brittany Cavallaro
2.0
Such an interesting premise and so much potential with the Chicago World Fair/Tesla/alternate monarchical US history/steampunk (?) backdrop, but my god, this just did absolutely nothing with it. Claire spends the entire novel buffeted around by other people’s schemes and plans and desires, and I never had a clear image of where she even wanted to go. In the last few pages (after dragging myself to the finish line) she says something like, “I can want things, I can make things happen!”
I understand that achieving autonomy can be a hero’s journey in itself, but being stuck with a point-of-view character who doesn’t figure that out until the last chapter was toooortuuuree.
I understand that achieving autonomy can be a hero’s journey in itself, but being stuck with a point-of-view character who doesn’t figure that out until the last chapter was toooortuuuree.