A review by ms_aprilvincent
What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw by Leah Stewart
3.0
3 stars, leaning towards 4
My main gripe is with the writing style, which is omniscient present tense, like the narration on Jane the Virgin, giving peeks into the future while focusing on the immediate present. It’s weird, and sometimes off-putting, and maybe a little tell-not-show.
The good stuff, however, is about actors and acting, and the strange in-between of being yourself but not being yourself, and observing yourself doing that, and then analyzing your observations. Stewart does a good job of showing the process, the doubt, the constant mental revisions.
The story’s good, if far-fetched (and, at times, a bit too Three Stooge-y), but it was engaging and I enjoyed it.
My main gripe is with the writing style, which is omniscient present tense, like the narration on Jane the Virgin, giving peeks into the future while focusing on the immediate present. It’s weird, and sometimes off-putting, and maybe a little tell-not-show.
The good stuff, however, is about actors and acting, and the strange in-between of being yourself but not being yourself, and observing yourself doing that, and then analyzing your observations. Stewart does a good job of showing the process, the doubt, the constant mental revisions.
The story’s good, if far-fetched (and, at times, a bit too Three Stooge-y), but it was engaging and I enjoyed it.