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About The Girl the Sea Gave Back
The Girl the Sea Gave Back ARC Review
I received a free copy of The Girl the Sea Gave Back for an honest review.
The Girl Who Gave the Sea Back was quite slow-paced for a YA adventure/fantasy YA book. It’s not like it was slow only at the beginning of the book either, the entire book is progressing so slowly I feel everything was going in slow motion.
The fact that The Girl the Sea Gave Back had so many different time jumps COMBINED with all the different alternative perspectives made this slow pace even worst, and it really ruined the reading experience and made this book almost intolerable to read.
Even at over half of the book, when so much was “at stake” and how dire the storyline is, I feel completely disconnected from the storyline and characters. That was when I realized that I could care less and this book and how much the book truly bored me.
I understand that the different time jumps and the alternative perspectives are there to make the writing style less “flat” and more ambiguous, as well as strengthen the layer of suspense and revelation to initially unanswered questions. But when it’s done too much (in my opinion that’s exactly what happened with this book), you completely lose the audience.
This is why you shouldn’t “switch around” too much during the process of telling a story – connections, involvement, and “care” can’t stick like that.
It’s a shame that this book was such a disappointment, it’s like I can see the effort but truly cannot connect with it.
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