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A review by samarakroeger
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? No
2.75
this ended up being kind of a garbled mess. why bother with multiple perspectives if everything is going to have the same authorial voice??? it's just confusing at that point.
you can tell this was written by a poet (in both good and bad ways). there's not much of a coherent plot. it's needlessly fragmentary. some of the sentences are beautiful, and sometimes it veers into purple prose.
anyways, not thrilled about that cheap ending ...
you can tell this was written by a poet (in both good and bad ways). there's not much of a coherent plot. it's needlessly fragmentary. some of the sentences are beautiful, and sometimes it veers into purple prose.
anyways, not thrilled about that cheap ending ...