Stephen Ford's Reviews > A Heart So White

This is one of the worst books I have ever read. Where shall I start? Its banal insights may just about justify a short story by a teenager; the dialogue is stilted, pretentious and postured; and no interesting events occur - nothing actually happens.

Most importantly, the style is pedestrian, repetitive, circumlocutary. For instance: "Carefully, very carefully (but not that carefully) I crossed the room." So which is it, Marias? Carefully, very carefully or not that carefully? And why should I care?

Life is too short to read dross like this. It would be eminently forgetable were it not so infuriating that time spent reading this could be spent more productively - for example, watching paint dry.