2.5 Magical Beans / 5
Ok, so this novel had a great premise and it begins quite interestingly. The idea of confinement and a warped perception of reality by a child who has grown up in a room is very intriguing and psychologically captivating. Yet, Donoghue's prose becomes painful about 1/3 of the way through the novel because of her use of over-simplistic language, brutal syntax and copious portmanteaus/child-like words. It becomes so distracting that I simply couldn't keep focused on the story itself. Don't get me wrong, there were some great philosophical points made and the action sequence was exciting enough, but the story was just too rough to plough through with the style of writing she employed. My advice for Donoghue would be to mix the mother's perspective with Jack's, providing at least a chapter of "relief" in between sentences with phrasings such as "meltedy spoon" and "I needed to poo" (the kid is obsessed with his feces and references it about 30 times throughout the book. . . frig).
2.5 Magical Beans / 5
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