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The Line (The Line, #1)
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Read as part of my ongoing shelf audit; DNF at just under 100 pages.
This might have worked for me if I'd read it around when it came out, when I was still in my teens, but as an adult I found the prose overly simplistic, very 'tell'-heavy, and more suited to a middle grade book than YA. I also think that the choice to set it in the 'Unified States' is a cop-out; if you're going to tell a dystopian story about paranoia and xenophobia and go so far as to still refer to the country as the 'U.S.'... just set it in a dystopian future and don't be coy.
The digressions into talking about orchid cultivation were better-written than the rest, making it feel like Hall's true interest was there and not really in the plot.
This might have worked for me if I'd read it around when it came out, when I was still in my teens, but as an adult I found the prose overly simplistic, very 'tell'-heavy, and more suited to a middle grade book than YA. I also think that the choice to set it in the 'Unified States' is a cop-out; if you're going to tell a dystopian story about paranoia and xenophobia and go so far as to still refer to the country as the 'U.S.'... just set it in a dystopian future and don't be coy.
The digressions into talking about orchid cultivation were better-written than the rest, making it feel like Hall's true interest was there and not really in the plot.
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Reading Progress
December 5, 2009
– Shelved
July 17, 2023
– Shelved as:
did-not-finish
