A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride
Rating: 1.5 /5 Stars
I tried really hard to like the book. The synopsis is one of the reason's that I wanted to read the book. It was intriguing and I didn't think twice about requesting it for a review. After the long wait to receive it, I finally decided to give it a read on Monday. Its Thursday and it is still a struggle to get through the first twenty pages.
First the
writing style was a type of 'stream of consciousness' but with far too
many full stops at totally inappropriate times, breaking the sentences
up so as to make them almost incomprehensible; whereas any conversations
between characters were just printed one after the other so you
couldn't tell who was saying what to whom. You didn't know who was speaking or whose thoughts you were reading.
None of the characters had
any redeeming features either and the story was unnecessarily vicious
and nasty in places. I skipped a few chapters ahead to see if it was like this all the way through and to my dismay it was.
