As a character in a novel, though? Miss me. Like, I’m vaguely aware of the different areas of LA, in the same way I’m aware there’s lot of different districts in NYC that are Very Important to the cultural hegemony of the west. Still, that’s an infelicitous verb choice. Like, I’m aware that Reid is aware that colonisation is theft on a grand scale, because she called the Spanish ‘colonisers’ and not ‘settlers’ or similar. “It caught fire in the 1800s when Spanish colonisers claimed the area.”Ĭlaimed? Um. The book opens with a boring spiel about the history of Malibu, a suburb of the city of LA. From the very first page I was concerned about the writing. But for the most part they were gripping and propulsive, and most of my concerns arose in the post-hoc analysis. Did they both have elements I thought were undercooked? Sure. Neither ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ or ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ lived up to their massive hype for me, but they were both competent pieces of work.
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