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A review by strawberrymivvy
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel by The Authors Guild, Douglas Preston, Margaret Atwood
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
This was a great premise, with some big name authors collaborating on a novel to raise funds for other authors. I was intrigued to read my first novel with the pandemic as the main plotline, but for me it fell flat.
There was little thought put into how the individual characters in the apartment building could tell their stories, so it just ended up with Yessie, the super, secretly recording them and them all spontaneously deciding to stand up with their monologue. Some of the stories were interesting and poignant, others seemed like gibberish, but they were later in the novel and quite honestly I was switching off by then.
From reading other reviews the ending was quite divisive, with lots of people loving it, but for me it felt like yet another lazy option, lack of thought of how these stories would coalesce.
There was little thought put into how the individual characters in the apartment building could tell their stories, so it just ended up with Yessie, the super, secretly recording them and them all spontaneously deciding to stand up with their monologue. Some of the stories were interesting and poignant, others seemed like gibberish, but they were later in the novel and quite honestly I was switching off by then.
From reading other reviews the ending was quite divisive, with lots of people loving it, but for me it felt like yet another lazy option, lack of thought of how these stories would coalesce.