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The Girl with the Louding Voice
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bookshelves: authors-of-color, non-ya, diverse, literary-fiction, unpopular-opinion, eh, reviewed, 2-stars
Apr 05, 2022
bookshelves: authors-of-color, non-ya, diverse, literary-fiction, unpopular-opinion, eh, reviewed, 2-stars
wow, can't believe they wrote a biography of my upstairs neighbor!!
now that we got my gimmicky introductory joke out of the way: we're back, baby.
it's my first unpopular opinion in a while, so of course it is a curse-level surprise disappointment that will rain hellfire and criticism upon me. and of course i will deserve it.
unfortunately i just couldn't get into this. the writing didn't grab me and the unrelenting awful happenings kept me really checked out of the book — i didn't have time to build a connection with the character that would have kept me invested, so i was just surface-level reading awful events. that's even more unfortunate because i am aware of the very true and haunting reality of these events.
lately i've been able to realize that i hate when it feels like a story is Trying, fairly obviously, to make me sad. when i care about characters and the writing works for me, i can feel devastated by a character burning a frozen pizza or having to go to a laundromat (to be fair, two of the worst things that can happen to a person).
but if i don't care about the characters, and soon into our knowledge of their existence on page we are left to sit and watch while terrible thing after terrible thing happens to them...instead of getting sad, i get angry!
and unfortunately that's what happened here.
bottom line: no thank you. sorry. none for me.
now that we got my gimmicky introductory joke out of the way: we're back, baby.
it's my first unpopular opinion in a while, so of course it is a curse-level surprise disappointment that will rain hellfire and criticism upon me. and of course i will deserve it.
unfortunately i just couldn't get into this. the writing didn't grab me and the unrelenting awful happenings kept me really checked out of the book — i didn't have time to build a connection with the character that would have kept me invested, so i was just surface-level reading awful events. that's even more unfortunate because i am aware of the very true and haunting reality of these events.
lately i've been able to realize that i hate when it feels like a story is Trying, fairly obviously, to make me sad. when i care about characters and the writing works for me, i can feel devastated by a character burning a frozen pizza or having to go to a laundromat (to be fair, two of the worst things that can happen to a person).
but if i don't care about the characters, and soon into our knowledge of their existence on page we are left to sit and watch while terrible thing after terrible thing happens to them...instead of getting sad, i get angry!
and unfortunately that's what happened here.
bottom line: no thank you. sorry. none for me.
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Jun 07, 2023 07:23AM
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Looool we’re probably living on the same floor…
So sad that you didn’t like this book. I listened to the audiobook and it was my favorite book for 2022.
I can't stand author manipulation and can spot it miles away.
Bennee wrote: "So sad that you didn’t like this book. I listened to the audiobook and it was my favorite book for 2022."i am glad it worked for you!!
Audrey wrote: "I can't stand author manipulation and can spot it miles away."real
“Author manipulation” is a crazy way to describe the reality of hundreds of thousands of young women all over the world.
Author manipulation means the author's primary goal is to force certain emotions from the reader instead of prioritizing character development. It is using real people in hard situations inauthentically by creating caricatures of them.
