2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge: a book with an upside-down image on the cover

[baronessekat]

Someone Like Me by M.R. Carey

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Pure and simple I found this story... odd. I loved one of the author's earlier book "The Girl With All the Gifts". I knew going in that this was not related to that story at all. The story was still interesting but it felt more like an homage to Stephen King with the weird factor.

The other thing about this book that threw me was that it was obviously an English author trying to write an American story. It takes place in a Larimer, PA ( a suburb of Pittsburgh) and mostly he got things right. But choices of words here and there made it clear it's not an American Author. He refers to the room that we call the Living Room or Den as "the Lounge". Constantly refers to a fox's tail as the brush. Rubber dish gloves are "washing up gloves". Things like that. But other things were correct - Trunk of a car for example.

I still want to read more by this author but this one left me just feeling... hmmmm. I do think the thing that got me staying with it was the reading talent of Robin Miles. She really managed to capture my attention, even with the story did not.

I don't want to really say much about the actual story as I cannot figure out a way to describe it without giving it away.



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