Cyndi J. (cyndij) reviewed on 7/13/2021 + 1032 more book reviews

I honestly don't know what to say about this Inventive to be sure. Also overwhelming, exhausting and unrelenting all in both positive and negative meanings. Hilarious, like side-splitting funny? Not for me. S.T. is witty and charming, not to mention loquacious, and his descriptions of the action can be humorous. But basically this book is one long battle with S.T. and Dennis desperately trying to stay alive, and S.T. trying to figure out what's going on and how he can stop it. (Spoiler: he can't). It's emotionally exhausting. And at the same time, it's slow. There are so many adjectives and adverbs packed into each sentence that it makes for great imagery but not so much advancing the story. The message did resonate with me. Original, inventive, clever, sad, humorous - all that - memorable, and sort of uplifting at the end. But I put this down so many times to go do something else. I won't read the next, this was just too much of a much for me.

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