![]() ![]() Nobody in this book talks like real people talk. She kept using metaphors and similes that made no sense, so they did not serve to communicate a concept to the reader like they are supposed to.Īnd the dialogue. It was like reading a book written by an alien. "It was a whole lot of spaghetti, she knew, him coming to the house." (is this a saying I've never heard of?) "Then she turned back to her guests and with a whim of steel, smiled." (with a whim of steel? Huh?) This author had such a strange way of phrasing things-it's like she was pulling from a book of cliches that I'd somehow never heard before. I found the story interesting enough to finish the book, but the writing was a huge problem for me. I picked this up because I am engrossed by stories of relationship struggles, and also because this book is set right where I used to live. The startup's newest investor is an estranged family member who has a surprise for the wife. It's a story about a troubled marriage in Silicon Valley during the beginning of the Great Recession, framed by the husband's struggling startup company specializing in surgery robots. ![]()
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