Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
Trust Exercise
The point of a trust exercise is that you know your trust will prove justified. In this case, however, Choi lets us down.
The first part of the book is a fairly interesting story of young people forced to become adults before they are mature enough to handle it; but as we leap into the second part, Choi withdraws her support by going all "meta" on us and leaves us dangling in mid-air. Nor does she bring us gently down to earth in the final part.
To put it another way, Choi is a good writer, but not so good that she can successfully shift the burden of communication from writer to reader.
The point of a trust exercise is that you know your trust will prove justified. In this case, however, Choi lets us down.
The first part of the book is a fairly interesting story of young people forced to become adults before they are mature enough to handle it; but as we leap into the second part, Choi withdraws her support by going all "meta" on us and leaves us dangling in mid-air. Nor does she bring us gently down to earth in the final part.
To put it another way, Choi is a good writer, but not so good that she can successfully shift the burden of communication from writer to reader.
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