Sunday, March 9, 2025

The Silence in Her Eyes by Armando Lucas Correa

 

Well, this was a pile of mediocrity. The prose itself wasn't total excrement, but just about everything else might be better served by being set on fire. The characters are all sketched out and barely more than one-dimensional; the storyline, such as it is, is jumbled and disconnected and episodic and overburdened with "twists" that are supposed to be "clever" but in fact are fucking tedious. The novels being name-dropped to indicate that at least one character in the novel is a "serious reader" would probably have been a clue where the author and I were going to part ways, if I'd seen it first.

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