My rating: ⭐⭐
I loved the first fifty or so pages of this book. The premise was
something exciting and different and I was really looking forward to reading
the rest of this book.
Unfortunately, I didn’t end up enjoying it as much as I thought I
would after the first fifty pages. I think it was partly because of me; my
mental health experienced a large dip whilst reading this book and as a result
I would leave it for days at a time, or longer. So, maybe with less fragmented
reading I would enjoy this book more, but I’m still not entirely sure.
The way time moved in this book I found to be disconcerting. Days and
weeks would pass on single pages as a result of the notes Tiffy and Leon were
sending, whilst other times less than an hour would pass over five or six chapters.
I think it was a natural consequence of having the two perspectives, but I felt
really taken out of a moment when the perspective would shift and as a result,
I didn’t really believe in the ‘chemistry’ between Tiffy and Leon. I tend to
enjoy third person narration more and this is a book where I think I would have
preferred it, especially so scenes would lack the jarring breaks.
Maybe I’ll give this book another go in future but I can’t be sure I’ll
really want to.
