Idaho: Ruskovich Emily

I don’t know the story just dredged on? Too slow for me somehow

3.5/5 Here we are, I went to Idaho, climbed that mountain and came back unharmed! I finished a book that's on my tbr for ages, mainly because the cover stood out to me in my favourite bookstore and the story sounded interesting. In the end the story I thought this would be wasn't it and I would never finished it if I hadn't listen to this on audiobook. And even then I clocked out mentally when the author went into her flowery writing style full of metaphors and similes, which made me roll my eyes maybe once or twice too much. I am not of fan of this kind of writing, I just want people to get to the point. I would describe Idaho as that one Indie Oscar Bait everyone loves because it's so beautifully filmed and written, but I would turn off after a few minutes. It has this underlying pretentiousness under it. Most books that are considered or eventually winning some Literary Awards are like this, and I cannot help myself but to dislike that certain style of writing which sometimes says 'look there is a metaphor, a very clever one, so I am better than you'. I think I have moved on from that pretentious phase in my life many years ago, so I couldn't find added value in it. In short, the whole story felt muffled, absent and not engaging. Had I read this only in physical form I would struggle to be motivated enough. Now, that sounds kind of harsh, especially considering I am giving this one 4 stars (rounded up from my 3.5 rating). This book deserves this rating, I think. Because the story is cool and interesting and the characters are mostly very fleshed out, though sometimes a bit absent (I guess that was the authors intention). I know some people who would probably devour this book. I, sadly, am not one of them.