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A review by katieinca
Chime by Franny Billingsley
3.0
Oh hi! Yes, I finished this. It was fun. And a neat and fun-to-think-about experiment. 3.5.
I get that we readers are muddled because our narrators are muddled, but it still felt a bit... thin to me. In spots. The world building. Also, I get irritated in books where the female lead seems to need the male lead more than vice versa, so I spent a fair amount of time being irritated, which the fixing-of-that in the last few chapters may not have entirely erased.
From back in April:
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I'm supposed to be reading nonfiction now, but it just didn't seem like the night for it. So I'm picking this up from my fun-things-I've-been-itching-to-read list. So far I'm not even 20 pages in and we have references to Queen Anne, paperclips, arsenic poisoning, swamp fever, and the Dead Hand. So, yeah, I'm in.
I get that we readers are muddled because our narrators are muddled, but it still felt a bit... thin to me. In spots. The world building. Also, I get irritated in books where the female lead seems to need the male lead more than vice versa, so I spent a fair amount of time being irritated, which the fixing-of-that in the last few chapters may not have entirely erased.
From back in April:
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I'm supposed to be reading nonfiction now, but it just didn't seem like the night for it. So I'm picking this up from my fun-things-I've-been-itching-to-read list. So far I'm not even 20 pages in and we have references to Queen Anne, paperclips, arsenic poisoning, swamp fever, and the Dead Hand. So, yeah, I'm in.