A review by iddylu
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus

2.0

It feels really hypocritical of me to think "I can't believe this book has such a low average rating on Goodreads" and then add yet another two-star review to the pile, but here we are. From reading some of the other reviews, it seems like it was apparently marketed as a thriller, which it definitely isn't - and so a good chunk of those low reviews are from people who thought they were getting one type of book and ended up with something very different. I'm not one of those, but still, it didn't hit the mark for me. It's very well-written, so that's not the issue. Honestly, it might just be that I'm not that into surrealism. Oh, well.