why must they write like this

Interesting premise but the tone of this book is quite bizzare and chirpy - it's too stark a contrast with the subject matter for me

This is really doing nothing for me - putting it down 

Although the premise of this was interesting, in execution it was just too slow to hold my interest. 
This is about three sisters, Irene, Isla, and Agnes, whose father has just died. They are all estranged from him and have a very tense and distant relationship with each other. Their complicated family background has bled into each of their lives, and they all have similar struggles with openness and being emotionally available. 

Although the premise was interesting, this moves at a glacial pace, and relies heavily on the sisters' poor communication. The father is dead from the beginning, so in the first half of the book there is virtually no plot progress made, apart from the same point about the fractured and strained the dynamic between the sisters being made again and again. I got tired of waiting for something else to happen, so put it down. 

I enjoyed this at first but it really stagnated. The writing and characters were so boring.
It’s largely about Nell, an artist living in an Irish island who is commissioned by this group of solitary nuns. There is definitely more that meets the eye , and Nell also has some extra stuff going on with some local men. But all in all just fkn boring 

Interesting story but it was quite boringly told imo

Found this narrator really self absorbed and uninteresting - wasn't very compelled by it so put it down 

Overall impressions thus far is that the writing is nice, the characters seem well-realised, and the setting is lovely - but this is just too racist for me. It's embedded into practically every scene, both implicitly and explicitly, and is just not something I want to be reading. 

Have enjoyed Bridget Collins' previous two novels, particularly The Binding, but this one really isn't doing anything for me so putting it down. 

The setting is interesting but this really not pulling me in. It feels too deliberate and self concious, I'm very aware that I'm reading something intentionally written. The footnotes particularly I find really ineffective, I'm not enjoying them.