Hotel World

It took me forever to get through this one. I appreciated how well it was written, I just found myself plugging away at it. Only occasionally did the floor drop out and I fell into the story. Sadly, that happened so rarely. Usually, when I start counting pages it's right to the DNF pile for a book, but I loved Public Libraries so much... I kept giving Hotel World one more page, then one more page, then one more page.

I don't know how I made it through 35 pages of stream of consciousness POV from the sister, but I did, using the bookmark to read it line by line by line. Had that been the first chapter, I never would have gotten past that part. SOC is, for me, the hardest thing to read. I find it frustrating and have NEVER seen it done in a way that was beneficial to a plot, ever. It's more like watching an author do finger exercises, or a word dump or listening to the dreams of a bunch of people you don't care about. Without punctuation. So that even your brain can't take a breath.

Was it worth it? Probably not. I did not enjoy this one bit. I put it down and read other things instead. I got through it. That probably says more about me than this book.