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A review by noldorin
Fluids by May Leitz
dark
fast-paced
1.0
Honestly, I don't even know where to begin.
The concept could've been great, I get the whole "writing a book to help with my trauma" and I'm not going to judge the content itself -as in, the abuse in it- if part of what is written happened to the author. However this was so..... badly written.
It was a sort of self insert fiction and I honestly felt as if I had been reading a bad fan fiction on AO3.
I don't think this was beautifully written, and maybe it wasn't meant to be, but the characters actions didn't make sense, I mean they didn't make sense at all.
The first falls in love in a day, or should I say an hour, while the second is shitless scared.
One second you're reading about two women running away, the next, one of them tries to murder the other because she's paranoid, while the first woman thinks being choked to death is a love confession.
I honestly cannot make sense of this book. That may just be my opinion, but if you plan on publishing a book that has some part of your trauma in it, at least write it so that it doesn't feel like what an edgy 14 year old who thinks murder is cool would write.
Also, skin doesn't work like this and shouldn't detach the way it did.
Overall simply felt like some kind of cliche "terrible lesbians meet each other and kill people" you find within indie horror authors.
The concept could've been great, I get the whole "writing a book to help with my trauma" and I'm not going to judge the content itself -as in, the abuse in it- if part of what is written happened to the author. However this was so..... badly written.
It was a sort of self insert fiction and I honestly felt as if I had been reading a bad fan fiction on AO3.
I don't think this was beautifully written, and maybe it wasn't meant to be, but the characters actions didn't make sense, I mean they didn't make sense at all.
The first falls in love in a day, or should I say an hour, while the second is shitless scared.
One second you're reading about two women running away, the next, one of them tries to murder the other because she's paranoid, while the first woman thinks being choked to death is a love confession.
I honestly cannot make sense of this book. That may just be my opinion, but if you plan on publishing a book that has some part of your trauma in it, at least write it so that it doesn't feel like what an edgy 14 year old who thinks murder is cool would write.
Also, skin doesn't work like this and shouldn't detach the way it did.
Overall simply felt like some kind of cliche "terrible lesbians meet each other and kill people" you find within indie horror authors.