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A review by incipientdreamer
Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Did not finish book. Stopped at 49%.
DNF @ 200 pages
Habeck had such an interesting idea and she executed it in the most boring and literary snobby way imaginable. The prose was awful to get through, I couldn't help cringing at some of the quotes and I had the formatting for this. I kept waiting for this to make me cry but I just felt tired and frustrated. Wren, the wife, feels like a manic pixie dream girl and so does the husband. I had high hopes for this but throughout the book, I could not help but compare this to Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea. A book that was poignant, and emotional dealt with loss and grief in half the number of pages with double the amount of skill.
Habeck had such an interesting idea and she executed it in the most boring and literary snobby way imaginable. The prose was awful to get through, I couldn't help cringing at some of the quotes and I had the formatting for this. I kept waiting for this to make me cry but I just felt tired and frustrated. Wren, the wife, feels like a manic pixie dream girl and so does the husband. I had high hopes for this but throughout the book, I could not help but compare this to Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea. A book that was poignant, and emotional dealt with loss and grief in half the number of pages with double the amount of skill.