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booking_along 's review for:
Children of Paradise
by Camilla Grudova
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A book trying very hard to be provokative, vulgar and "edgy" by showing just how utterly disgusting either humans or the author can be with the ideas of what humans can do.
"Spilled popcorn, contraband glass bottles of wine, ... that people snuck in, ... strangely heavy Pepsi cups which turned out to be filled with vomit or shit, ..., occasionally, toenails and semen, feathers even, as if someone had brought a dead chick to pluck."
Who doesn't love reading a good amount how other people use cinema seats as replacement toilettes and more than one very descriptive descriptive on how that is cleaned up? Or a very graphic description on how the inside of a toilette looks after it not being flushed?
Oh you have no interest in reading that?
I DIDN'T EITHER!
This book should have come with a warning label at the front stating very clearly that if you do not want to read about feces or any other human secretions, just skip it!
I clearly am not the right audience for a book like this.
Half of this book was just utterly disgusting for me to read in the way that i do not understand how this was even published because, come one! Who wants to even read this (and how -HOW!- did this end up on a Book Prize list? Can someone PLEASE give those Judges some good books that were published in the time frame they are judging for because clearly they need help!) and if you are someone that enjoys reading about things that are too often graphically described in this book... i am sorry, please never contact me?
Is unnecessary vulgarity, unprovoked detailed descriptions of things that nobody needs to hear about a new trend in books? If so could i please get a list with books to avoid from now on?
The other half of this book was just boring.
Mostly because the only thing this book seems to count on is shock factor in its vulgarity and not actually building a good plot, characters or ... you know an actual story to tell?
It could have been good. But it lacked too much for me to say so.
Lets say this again: Clearly i am not the target audience, so maybe i am just not the right person to have read and reviewed this to give a good option on this.
But honestly? As said as i am to say this about a book:
Just skip this.
Or you know... don't if anything about what i just said sounds appealing to you, do read it.