S. G. Browne

Didn't do it for me. I gave up.

I thought I just no longer had it in me to read light, unsophisticated fare -- but then I tore through half of [b:Fistful of Feet|6973833|Fistful of Feet|Jordan Krall|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349088596s/6973833.jpg|7213935] in one sitting.

No, Breathers just has that lackluster passive-male first-person narrative voice that I've across so much recently (Busy Monsters? Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England? Ready Player One? I've lost track of the others) and that just bores the hell out of me. I ditched on [b:Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children|9460487|Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1)|Ransom Riggs|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1391229642s/9460487.jpg|14345371] for similar reasons (though largely because I hadn't realized it was a children's book when I started).

I suppose I should be chucking an extra star at the book for how fully-realized the author's world is, but that's part of the problem: I felt like the author was describing the scenario to me as the ideas came to him. And really, any book I put down shouldn't get more than a star. Though, to be fair, a novel I won't finish is quite a feat, so maybe there's an award of sorts in there somewhere.… (altro)