Justin Monisit’s Reviews > The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea > Status Update

Nobody can say that I didn't give this book a chance - I literally got halfway through the book until I decided I have suffered enough. This book tries to mix a dry romantic subplot with a psycho child but doesn't expand on any of that. It's boring with little happening, and not the prose or characterization to justify it. I couldn't have finished this book in a few hours if you even paid me.

Honestly I could finish this book cover to cover in one sitting but I couldn't bear the thought of doing it to a book this strange. Screw completionism, if this book doesn't pick up (which I am being incredibly lenient on), it's the first non comic book DNF from me.

As soon as I was ready to put the book down, the next chapter opens up with a group of children throwing a stray cat against the tree and cutting out its organs, feeling them with their hands, described in explicit detail

What was once boring now feels gratuitously obscene and aimless.

Welp I'm incredibly close to DNFing it already - creeped out by the beginning, suffered through the purple prose describing every single detail in the middle of this, and there is no plot or likable character coming in anytime soon.

Reading the reviews it sounds wildly different from this point on - so I'll give it one or two more chapters before abandoning it.