![]() ![]() While I understood what North was trying to convey with the writing (and she did succeed as well, to an extent), the stylistic decisions were so dominant that for me, they kept pulling me from the story, making this a very, truly, incredibly slow read. And this was portrayed heavily in the way the story was told. Hope has lived her formative and adult years without any emotional connection to anyone, and in order to keep herself sane, she has constructed her consciousness to be made up of lists, and mantras, and trivia. ![]() The one thing that I had most issues with, is also one of the good things about this book, and that was the writing style. I did have a hard time relating to (or even empathizing with) Hope, though, which might have been intentional on the author's part. ![]() (I have serious misgivings of having ever installed Facebook Messenger on my phone, for one thing.) The characters seemed real enough and Hope's condition was described convincingly. I enjoyed the plot and I think the themes in this book were fascinating while quite creepy in their plausibility. It took me a month to read this book, which sums up why this wasn't a five star read for me. ![]()
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