Reviewed by funbreaker4opal on
None of the characters are really that interesting except for Ruth and Taro, the dog. However, HOWEVER, for some reason until the ending the book makes you feel like you should root for the stepmom, who is a Nazi. You can't make your teenage lead a brat and vaguely anachronistically so and have me root for her. Nina and Ian are perfect angery copies of each other and makes for ass chemistry. Tony, the polyglot (not linguist that's not how being a linguist works), was okay until he started fucking a girl at least a decade younger than he was. What.
A decent chunk of the material could be removed from the book and have NO impact on the plot. Most of it is Nina's backstory, which is a super tedious tale of child abuse and stereotypes that were outdated in the 1930s.
Also, random token lesbian kiss just to have a random token lesbian kiss. Go all the way with your LGBT couple and all the implications, joys, and hardships it would have at this time, you coward.
Anyway, I haven't the faintest clue why HC picked this up and don't really wanna check out anything else by this author.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 18 September, 2019: Finished reading
- 18 September, 2019: Reviewed