Tim Te Maro and the Subterranean Heartsick Blues

dnf at 41%

I started out liking it, which is good, but started to see issues early on. I tried to just push through and stopped when I found myself just tapping to the next page. I know when I do that then it's time to stop reading. I did really want to like it but there were glaring issues and I couldn't close my eyes to them.

Most of the time I love it when a book reads like fanfiction, all right? It's great, it reads easy for me, I want to keep reading and I'd love for there to be fanfiction of that book. This book, however, reads like fanfiction in the bad way. There's no real characterisation or development because the author assumes we already know the characters from the media (whatever the format) and therefore chooses not to change their personalities. Although in here they just didn't really have any personalities. So rather stop reading than try to carry on.