A Note Of Madness
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A Note of Madness didn't turn out to be what I had originally expected. The book tells us the story of Flynn, a music student and pianist at the Royal College of Music in London whose life spirals out of control as he develops a mental illness. When I first read the summary I expected a story about someone with a deep depression and what I got was slightly and yet so much different. I had quite a few problems with A Note of Madness. Because of those I continually checked how many pages I still had to go to the end of the chapter or sometimes even the end of a paragraph. Main Character: I couldn't connect to the main character at all. Flynn seemed foreign and distant and I had a hard time feeling sympathy for him. It didn't feel like a guy was telling the story, it felt like a woman was trying to write from a guy's perspective (which is exactly what it was). A lot of it had to do with the writing, which didn't appeal to me. The Writing: It felt forced and muddled. When the author seemed to try to go poetic it didn't feel natural at all and it prevented the story to flow. Something that bugged me was the author's continuous use of "a silence". Isn't silence simply silence and not "a silence"? I would've understood the use of it more if it had an adjective attributed to it but there never was one. Narration: Sometimes Tabitha Suzuma seemed to shift between 3rd person narrator and 1st person narrator. That certainly didn't help the confusion I already had while reading the book. I can understand why people might like A Note of Madness. I, however, did not. I had planned on reading Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma but after reading this book I'm not sure if I still want to.
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A Note of Madness didn't turn out to be what I had originally expected. The book tells us the story of Flynn, a music student and pianist at the Royal College of Music in London whose life spirals out of control as he develops a mental illness. When I first read the summary I expected a story about someone with a deep depression and what I got was slightly and yet so much different. I had quite a few problems with A Note of Madness. Because of those I continually checked how many pages I still had to go to the end of the chapter or sometimes even the end of a paragraph. Main Character: I couldn't connect to the main character at all. Flynn seemed foreign and distant and I had a hard time feeling sympathy for him. It didn't feel like a guy was telling the story, it felt like a woman was trying to write from a guy's perspective (which is exactly what it was). A lot of it had to do with the writing, which didn't appeal to me. The Writing: It felt forced and muddled. When the author seemed to try to go poetic it didn't feel natural at all and it prevented the story to flow. Something that bugged me was the author's continuous use of "a silence". Isn't silence simply silence and not "a silence"? I would've understood the use of it more if it had an adjective attributed to it but there never was one. Narration: Sometimes Tabitha Suzuma seemed to shift between 3rd person narrator and 1st person narrator. That certainly didn't help the confusion I already had while reading the book. I can understand why people might like A Note of Madness. I, however, did not. I had planned on reading Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma but after reading this book I'm not sure if I still want to.