gerikatz
I am in no way a YA, so not the target audience for the book. I appreciated the LGBTQ representation, the Jewish supernatural themes, and the historical research that went into the novel. The writing, though, was overwrought, clunky, imprecise, and if I can quibble, some really weird word choices were repeated throughout the book that made me wonder about the editor’s skills. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator was extremely distracting, trying to mimic accents it sounds like he’d never heard before, and chewing the scenery in the process. As for the plot, it feels like the author read Devil in the White City and said “let’s make it Jewish!”
I am in no way a YA, so not the target audience for the book. I appreciated the LGBTQ representation, the Jewish supernatural themes, and the historical research that went into the novel. The writing, though, was overwrought, clunky, imprecise, and if I can quibble, some really weird word choices were repeated throughout the book that made me wonder about the editor’s skills. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator was extremely distracting, trying to mimic accents it sounds like he’d never heard before, and chewing the scenery in the process. As for the plot, it feels like the author read Devil in the White City and said “let’s make it Jewish!”
