A review by gardens_and_dragons
The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Drager

emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

This is a hard novella to review. I’ll probably add more after I think about it more. I appreciate what it was trying to be, but overall my enjoyment was diminished by the POV holding the reader at arms length. 

I’m giving it a 4 rounded up - because I enjoyed the prose, the themes, the way it interwove plot points and left us breadcrumbs. It feels like it will be very important for some folks to read. For me, I wish it was just… more. It felt like a beautiful postmodern than would have been better left as a short story than a novella. 

I would still recommend this for folks to give it a try! 


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