Review: Girl, Woman, Other

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Note: An ARC was given to me by Netgalley, and I also was able to obtain a copy from the library. Hence why I had two copies before. But thank you to Netgalley for approving me in exchange for an honest review.

"A masterpiece."

"A must read."

"One for all the bookworms."

Boy were they wrong..

Let me explain.

The cover -A patchwork, quilts made up. Stitched together are the girls of the story, each having their own part, their own voice about what's been happening in their life. Good enough to get me reading, therefore a point given.

The summary -It's almost the same story that is told about women, specially black women and their struggles in different eras. Not much interest, but like 5% maybe. Hence why a point is given.

But as usual, Fate runs up to me and snatches my story, tries to ruin it and......succeeds.

One point for Fate.

0 for J.

God.

The writing - Was so disjointed, and thrown all over the place like some goddamn game of legos. A chaos to behold.

And as a grammar nazi, I feel offended by the author's writing style. More like disoriented but same thing.

How can she call herself a writer, if she can't even write the way normal writers do, like I don't know...with punctuations maybe?

Therefore I had to DNF. I don't care how anyone else overlooks this author's mess of writing decently, but I certainly care enough to point this fact out.

People get offended at the slightest typo made by an author and make fun of the author and humiliate them.

But in this case, they simply choose to overlook the million grammar and writing mistakes she made, and call it a "masterpiece".

I ask you, how is it possible to wear a blindfold on almost every second paragraph wrought with mistakes and still call it a wonderful piece of work? I fail to understand.

Sorry but I disagree with everyone else about what is a masterpiece.

There are many ways that you can pose a message, but this is not one of them. Destroying the writing style won't earn any brownie points with me and certainly it will set me running from this as far as I can.

So, not recommended. AT ALL.

Until the next read,

TMR

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