Thalia @ Pictures in the Words
I'm Thalia! I run a book blog called Pictures in the Words and I hope to be an editor for YA fiction. I'm a GoodReads refugee!
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Yet another book for my "Literature for Young Adults" class. Except...this is kind of written like a four year old wrote it. And not in a good way.
I don't really enjoy the trend of making first person narrators sound extremely childish. Like, "Uhmma is smiling. Happy lots of teeth smile. Happy as the letter about Mi Gook. Happy at me. Even though Uhmma tells me I should always tell the truth, and Halmoni says God will be very angry if you lie, I want Uhmma to smile happy lots of teeth at me."
There's just nothing about something like that that is endearing to me. I don't enjoy it. I don't think it's new or fresh or insightful. You can have a child as a narrator, but if you totally overdo it to the point where you character sounds like a three-year-old, it gets to be pretty annoying after a couple pages. It almost feels like the writing is giving up, not trying to sound mature because they found an excuse not to.
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