A review by iddylu
Fat Girl, Terrestrial by Kellie Wells

1.0

While I liked some of the individual bits ("Deliver My Darling from the Power of the Dog" was by far my favorite chapter), and the surface-level plot was interesting (a woman dealing with both grief over her brother, who went missing when they were children, and with the way she's viewed and treated because of her size), this book as a whole just didn't work for me. I definitely don't think Wells is a bad writer - quite the opposite - and her turns of phrase are creative and well-done. It's just that she crams in so many of them that they quickly lose their punch. For me, interesting metaphors and long, flowery sentences are best when they're used sparingly. When they show up in nearly every sentence, they distract; it's oversaturation. That plus a highly surrealist narrative structure means that it just wasn't for me.