CrossTalk

by Connie Willis

[jamiereadthis]

Okay, so. Huh. This book. I’ve meant to read Connie Willis for ages. I think I’d like Connie Willis in most other cases.

But this book. Drove me mad.

It’s SO manic. It’s so circular and repetitive. And that’s the point, I know, but still: no one has a single surprising or off-topic thought the whole time? Are you kidding? And then the plot only works by withholding information? And then there’s still plot holes big enough to drive a truck through? And explain to me please why it’s a horrible thing that the voices are gone when, up to that point, the whole goal has been getting rid of the voices?

If the point of book was driving me mad, then yay, it worked.

I really do get what Willis was going for, and I would have liked the book had she gotten there. But it felt like a struggle, and she didn’t, so even the fun parts got bogged down in “WTF, huh?”