A review by lilawrights
A Sudden Light by Garth Stein

1.0

Begging us to unpack why there was a necessity for the varying levels of causality in the also curiously necessary incest in this book. What was that about, because it really did not move the plot along at all, and it felt very much like an authors depravity thrown in for funzies? Both dynamics with the aunt, father and son felt inappropriate, not in the obvious sense, but in a literary one, it didn’t serve a purpose that couldn’t have just as easily been fulfilled with better dialogue and character development. I also thought the whole very casual ghost thing was a little hard for me to immerse myself in. I wanted to like this book but it felt just barely undeveloped enough at so many points that I was constantly finding myself unable to commit to this world.