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A review by pwbalto
Girl at the Bottom of the Sea by Michelle Tea
4.0
Ok this is a second book. For about the first hundred pages I didn't know that, and I was kind of confused, but then kind of impressed that an author would so confidently start a story in media res and just let her readers catch on and catch up... which, I have to say, totally happened. Bold move. Kind of meta. But not a thing that she did, as it turns out.
So it's interesting - now I've read the reviews of the first book in this series, and they praise the author's language and imagination but ding her for an inconsistent voice and, apparently, numerous grammatical errors. Neither of those flaws appear in this book, which makes me think that this may be one of the rare series (grr we really need an actual plural for 'series' in this business - I propose serieux) about which I would recommend skipping the first act.
So it's interesting - now I've read the reviews of the first book in this series, and they praise the author's language and imagination but ding her for an inconsistent voice and, apparently, numerous grammatical errors. Neither of those flaws appear in this book, which makes me think that this may be one of the rare series (grr we really need an actual plural for 'series' in this business - I propose serieux) about which I would recommend skipping the first act.