Speaking of plot, where was it? If the overall goal was to build up to the main character's mother getting an exorcism, than the ball was definitely dropped because leading up to that there was no direction in this story. As for the fantasy setting, I had respect for the originality of it but most of it just came off as surrealist randomness and I wish it was better integrated into the story and overall plot. It just didn't seem to serve whatever the plot of this was. What was the point of making her mentally ill? Mind you, the mental illness she had wasn't one I've ever heard of (I mean she hallucinates and smacks people over the head when she gets mad. She was too much of a caricature for me to believe she would ever be a tolerable real person. The character's personality didn't win me over either. If anything, things seemed to work out better for her because of her lack of impulse control. I say this mostly because I hated how she basically went around acting on every impulse she had and was such a karma Houdini for it. The character was such an author's pet and that hinders any story in my opinion when the author loves their main character too much. I HATED the main character, not for the reasons I've heard many others did tho. I went into this book with such high expectations and had gotten nothing but disappointment in return.
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