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I am a great fan of time travel, time loop and Time Concept novels as a general rule. However I found this book confusing, with narrative arrows pointing in different directions, and not following through to give a clear picture of how these people were really living. The use of the slash to denote choices in place of commas was at first intriguing or endear, then became problematic for me as choices did not always seem to match.
Thanks to #NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication in exchange for an honest review but this book was not for me.
Switch is a very peculiar story with a unique writing style. Throughout the whole book I had no idea where the story was going at certain times. It wasn’t what I expected but I did still really enjoy it even though it was a bit challenging to read. I think it’s worth people trying it.
Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review.
Three things are important to know about this book: Tru lives in a world that it's stuck in a fold of time and space, so the real time has stopped - although they continue to mark a kind of imaginary time based on a website -, her father builds boxes around a switch they have in their house and she recently discovers she has the ability to throw javelin at school. It all sounds very confusing but it makes sense (kind of).
I hadn't read her books in a while and when I saw what this one was about, I was so excited to read it and it was just underwhelming.
Her writing is amazing as usual. It's very sensitive and lyric. She alsos uses slashes (the punctuation mark) sometimes, which can be annoying, but there's a point to them and I really like the themes that she explores here - I'd rather not say much since it's very short and part of the fun is trying to figure out what the heck is going on - although I'm not sure I liked the way she did it.
There's also a lot of family drama if you are into it, which I personally like. The characters were a bit bland for me and I couldn't connect much to them and I didn't feel so hooked while reading because of them.
This is my first A.S.King that I’ve ever read and it did not disappoint. They write in the surrealist genre and this was definitely surrealist. Therefore it is hard to write about the book without going away too much. I recommend everyone try this book. I enjoyed the reading experience.