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A review by mcgbreads
Ice by Anna Kavan
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
ARC review; thanks to NetGalley, Pushkin Press, and Pushkin Press Classics for the access to this ebook.
This is a novella and yet I just couldn't get into it, but I feel like that's on me. I'm just not the reader for this kind of story. I couldn't get my bearings or sink my teeth into it. Nothing was making sense to me and I appreciate that that's the style of the genre, but I don't particularly enjoy reading this kind of dream-like story that I can't grasp. If things don't make sense, I need to at least be able to connect at an emotional level to be willing to go along, but that was missing for me. I appreciate that it reads like a nightmare and it's very disorienting, which can feel disturbing and create a sense of dread that other reviews report feeling, but that didn't happen for me. I was just confused and not into it.
This is a novella and yet I just couldn't get into it, but I feel like that's on me. I'm just not the reader for this kind of story. I couldn't get my bearings or sink my teeth into it. Nothing was making sense to me and I appreciate that that's the style of the genre, but I don't particularly enjoy reading this kind of dream-like story that I can't grasp. If things don't make sense, I need to at least be able to connect at an emotional level to be willing to go along, but that was missing for me. I appreciate that it reads like a nightmare and it's very disorienting, which can feel disturbing and create a sense of dread that other reviews report feeling, but that didn't happen for me. I was just confused and not into it.