The baby ends up coming early and cries a lot (seems like a trait in this family).
Ha!
Turns out that Williams' Doll Dance song is just what the baby needs to be lulled to sleep.
Oh BARF.
AAAARGH GOOD MOMENT RUINED also ffs this girl is 12 or 13ish, a liiiittle young to be getting in on flapper culture but sure, whatever.
So now we've got not one but two children in a damn speakeasy. Where I'm sure all the grown-ups will be on their very best behaviour.
And that, my friends, is the book.
...wait what? THAT'S IT? Seriously? What a ripoff!
Followed by five unnumbered blank pages, then one with the bar code and stuff. That doesn't strike me as particuarly good formatting but I admittedly don't know much about the book layout business.
I do know about it and yeah, this is bad formatting.
Mary's special gift of seeing manifests itself in visions of ghosts and [???] and culminates in an uncanny musical ability
So she was only good at it because of MAGIC, not talent and years of hard work. This is every bit as insulting as saying all ancient monuments outside of Europe were built by frigging aliens, because god forbid them brown folks just be clever and inventive.
And I just found so much of this book boring, and telling someone to 'make it less boring' isn't helpful advice.
I think a major part of what makes a book boring is you not being able to connect with the characters. Therefore you don't care about what happens to them, therefore you stop caring about the story, therefore you're unengaged and not having a nice time, which very quickly leads to boredom. Kelly writes Williams as an irritating whiny fool with bizarre incestuous desires and a lousy woe is me attitude, so how is anyone likely to find this character likeable? Let along give a rat's butt about what happens to her? Even less so when basically nothing DOES happen to her.
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Date: 2024-12-29 05:04 am (UTC)Ha!
Oh BARF.
So now we've got not one but two children in a damn speakeasy. Where I'm sure all the grown-ups will be on their very best behaviour.
...wait what? THAT'S IT? Seriously? What a ripoff!
I do know about it and yeah, this is bad formatting.
So she was only good at it because of MAGIC, not talent and years of hard work. This is every bit as insulting as saying all ancient monuments outside of Europe were built by frigging aliens, because god forbid them brown folks just be clever and inventive.
I think a major part of what makes a book boring is you not being able to connect with the characters. Therefore you don't care about what happens to them, therefore you stop caring about the story, therefore you're unengaged and not having a nice time, which very quickly leads to boredom. Kelly writes Williams as an irritating whiny fool with bizarre incestuous desires and a lousy woe is me attitude, so how is anyone likely to find this character likeable? Let along give a rat's butt about what happens to her? Even less so when basically nothing DOES happen to her.
God, what a waste of paper this thing was.