Tag: coming of age

The biggest problem I had with this book was that it inspired almost nothing in me. It had five POV characters, all of whom had identical voices. Luckily, it was easy to tell from context who the POV character was, but if I stopped reading mid-chapter I might have to take a moment to remember.…

“If you’re always aiming for perfection, you won’t make anything at all.”

“Sometimes I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”

Now she was confused, as if she’d been reading a book that had several pages removed, but hadn’t realized the pages were gone until this moment.

Inside he felt like he was a whole bundle of fun. ‘Or at least I would be, if I could only work out a way of getting the fun out of me.’

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.