Helpful Score: 2
This book started off very exciting - I was immediately hooked and devouring it.
Somewhere just before the middle section started, this enjoyment waned. This was partly due to a plot point (no spoilers) and a lot due to the storytelling just becoming very stretched out. The whole middle of the book could have been so much tighter - the plot didn't need all that room to breathe and the pace before the slowdown had been excellent and quick. Perhaps Lynskey was trying to make a certain page count?
Things picked back up, eventually, but my enjoyment never hit the same highs as before. The ending was satisfactory, but not a whole lot more than that.
A decent read, and better than a lot of books, but ultimately not as good a book as it promised to be in early chapters, and not as good as it should have been.
Somewhere just before the middle section started, this enjoyment waned. This was partly due to a plot point (no spoilers) and a lot due to the storytelling just becoming very stretched out. The whole middle of the book could have been so much tighter - the plot didn't need all that room to breathe and the pace before the slowdown had been excellent and quick. Perhaps Lynskey was trying to make a certain page count?
Things picked back up, eventually, but my enjoyment never hit the same highs as before. The ending was satisfactory, but not a whole lot more than that.
A decent read, and better than a lot of books, but ultimately not as good a book as it promised to be in early chapters, and not as good as it should have been.
