Vestal McIntyre
Auteur van Lake Overturn: A Novel
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- McIntyre, Vestal
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- USA
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- Nampa, Idaho, USA
London, England, UK
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
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There are plenty of things to like about this story. The setting is lovely and engagingly drawn; Dinah is relatively likable (for a teenager); while it's arguable that relatively little really happens, there's obviously a lot going on in Dinah's head as she figures things out about herself and her world. We get a great picture of the fashion designer from very few encounters with her.
However, a lot of the characters are very shallow -- stereotypes we barely skim the surface of. We're behind Dinah's eyes, and she has the empathy of a young teenager among strangers, which is to say she doesn't seem to have very much of it. Only Luis really pushes beyond being stereotyped, and then only in the very last part of the story. I'm not sure how much of this is supposed to be Dinah's insular Midwestern view and how much is unintentional, but I found her lack of connection -- her lack of really trying for connection, in almost every case -- pulled me out of the story.
It's not a bad read, all in all; I look forward to seeing where the author goes. Perhaps this one just wasn't for me, or I read it at the wrong time.… (meer)