Annaleese Jochems
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Baby door Annaleese Jochems
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.Honestly this one was a tough read. It is a very slow starter and I didn't love the dialog at all. Seemed like a robot wrote it. It is all about social media and being absorbed in yourself and I think I hated every character in this book. Too be honest I was glad when I finished it so I didn't have to slog through it any longer.
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.2.5
Plotless. Bogged down with jagged writting and even more jagged pacing. A whispering ghost of a Moshfeg piece with none of the panache. At first it seemed promising with its well written unlikable characters, original storyline, and constant building of tension. I waited for that building to present some sort of moment in the story where at least you would feel the slog paid off. Spoiler alert...it didnt. This is a stagnant story with stagnant characters at a snail's pace.
Plotless. Bogged down with jagged writting and even more jagged pacing. A whispering ghost of a Moshfeg piece with none of the panache. At first it seemed promising with its well written unlikable characters, original storyline, and constant building of tension. I waited for that building to present some sort of moment in the story where at least you would feel the slog paid off. Spoiler alert...it didnt. This is a stagnant story with stagnant characters at a snail's pace.
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.An exploration of a sociopathic romance and the carnage it leaves in its wake, Baby is certainly a very unusual book. Cynthia is young and completely disconnected from virtually everything in her life other than her personal trainer, Anahera. The two launch an ill-advised plan to run off together on a boat they buy with stolen money. Their relationship wobbles between obsession, indifference and animosity as their world narrows to the point where they've sacrificed everything else in their lives. Then the unexpected appearance of other people into their bizarre idyll drives them even further over the edge.
Jochems, a debut author, has a deft way of chronicling the instability of the characters. There were times when the tension between them was so taught I could feel it. I also liked her satirical descriptions of millennial ennui -- Cynthia only seems capable of assessing the world around her when she's summing up the social dynamics of the characters on her favorite reality TV shows, and she sees the people in her life as similarly driven by melodrama. But Anahera remained a very elusive character, which made the ending somewhat confusing and unsatisfying. Still, a good first try for a writer with a lot of promise.… (meer)
Jochems, a debut author, has a deft way of chronicling the instability of the characters. There were times when the tension between them was so taught I could feel it. I also liked her satirical descriptions of millennial ennui -- Cynthia only seems capable of assessing the world around her when she's summing up the social dynamics of the characters on her favorite reality TV shows, and she sees the people in her life as similarly driven by melodrama. But Anahera remained a very elusive character, which made the ending somewhat confusing and unsatisfying. Still, a good first try for a writer with a lot of promise.… (meer)
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.This book was unique, but a bit disappointing. The problem with a sociopathic protagonist is that she was very difficult to connect to - I couldn't get a grasp on her character, her motivations, her emotional logic, etc. This was a fairly quick read, but kind of blah, lacked emotional heft. Some of the scenes will definitely stick with me, though.
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