SPOILER ALERT**********Thank you--I was intrigued and disappointed at once with the book, and what you've said puts the nail on it how the main conceit doesn't really work by the end. The door between worlds motif with her ability to write them into being was a nice handling of the conceit that didn't pay off for the reason you stated. I also felt the narrator'a voice changed from ironic nineteenth century mode that was somewhat twee, but also had some good imagery and sarcasm then switched to a plainer modern first person narration as it went on, and didn't account for the change. Lastly, I was annoyed by the fetishization of her mom's blonde hair, undermining the narrator as a woman of color, and if it was meant to be a point of internalized racism, there was no reveal of that.
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Date: 2020-06-29 12:25 am (UTC)