Uprooted

The writing was awful. It's like the protagonist is the narrator at the same time, trying to make this book more like a fairy tale but failing most of the time. It creates so much distance between the reader and what is happening as well as making me pause every few sentences as I'm not entirely sure what just happened. It messes up with the pace too because sometimes it's extremely detailed - how would someone in that story even remember such details and retrospectively add them in a way that doesn't even create tension? It's basically so much telling but no showing. None at all. I don't know how to explain this better but I just can't get myself to read more of this.