A review by bardo
Tell Me My Name by Amy Reed

3.0

Fern lives an idyllic life on an island for the rich, with her two dads. But when a teenage celerity arrives on the island to deal with her demons, Fern is sucked into a life she never dreamed of and may cost her more than she anticipated. Tell Me My Name is a gender swapped Great Gatsby bursting with drugs alcohol and seduction. Reed dips into the outsider prospective in this fast paced whirl wind. In all the Great Gatsby glitter and shine, the plot lacks structure in order for the reader to follow the story and narration. The author does indicated that there are DID disorder characteristics in the protagonist and this would have been a great detail to the plot but the follow through was not well done. Through out the book there is narration that is linear and gives detailed and lyrical world building, Yet, the prose and unstructured narratives break down what the world building and the characters involved. This could have added to the overall story but the characters are never really flesh out and all seem to have paper thin personalities. The love square... triangle.... what ever it is is never explained fully or why Fern has an attachment in that state. Overall, I was disappointed when the book did not mirror the great Gatsby and again when it did.