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Loading... Signatures: A Novel (edition 2023)by Lucas Alves (Author), Samantha Giles (Editor), Jason Anscomb (Illustrator)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. The verbose narrative turned me off on the very first page. I totally lost interest. I rather read about a clear setting, with time and place described and therefore relatable or at least defined and easily imagined for characters to exist in that setting.This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I did not love this book and quit at page 100. I have multiple pages turned down where I was confused about things - on two different occasions the main character asks for red wine - once the waitress brings Sauvignon Blanc and the other time a Chenin Blanc, which was described as tasting of black currant and dark chocolate. So confusing, does the author not know anything about wine and if not, why get so specific? I also found it overly wordy, with confusing phrases like "an arid moisture", which I'm not sure how that even works? Not trying to be a smart ass, just seemed like the book could use a really good editor. Overall, at 100 pages, I did not particularly connect with the main character or care what happened to him so I stopped. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Signatures by Lucas Alves was a bit of a struggle for me to read. The particular style of writing the author has felt much more suited to a screenplay, which is a form he has experience in, than to a novel. The descriptive passages seemed to dominate and I never felt invested in the character Landon. It felt like a slice of life novel which can be very good, but somehow it never felt consequential to me. no reviews | add a review
"When writers write with unsullied beauty, the words hum in your head. Haunt your dreams. Beckon your desires. And in the rose brimmed dawn, the world becomes your own. Forever wholly. Forever conquered."Landon Cassidy, an up-and-coming writer on the brink of a literary breakthrough, flees from unsurmountable pressure to traverse the northwest. With few belongings, and his mutt Maple, a stranger in a strange land, he stumbles into a chance encounter with a reclusive literary legend.Landon's world is turned upside down when he is swept up in the encompassing beauty of the author's life, both past and present.From drunken one night stands to doomed romances, Landon chances for an opportunity with redemption while battling his inner demons in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. No library descriptions found. |
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There was too much detailed description of movements and it kept throwing me out of the reading.
I was also thrown by the formatting - no quotation marks, different font.
Maybe I will try again, but for now, it is an unfinished read ( )