Recent Reading: Brother Bronte
Jun. 20th, 2026 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rocky41_7Calling it quits on Fernando A. Flores' Brother Bronte today.
This just did not do it for me. I liked the premise and a lot of the weirdness and dystopia of the first section was interesting, but it was painfully plotless. Just when it felt like we were getting to an actual storyline, we jumped over to some barely related section that focuses on an author one of the protagonists really enjoys. Jazzmine Monelle's section killed it for me because it was incredibly boring and irrelevant to Neftali, and what I thought would be a short jaunt until we got back to Neftali and Proserpina turned out to be a good chunk of story.
Its purposeless weirdness cannot save it from the dullness of the overall experience.
This just did not do it for me. I liked the premise and a lot of the weirdness and dystopia of the first section was interesting, but it was painfully plotless. Just when it felt like we were getting to an actual storyline, we jumped over to some barely related section that focuses on an author one of the protagonists really enjoys. Jazzmine Monelle's section killed it for me because it was incredibly boring and irrelevant to Neftali, and what I thought would be a short jaunt until we got back to Neftali and Proserpina turned out to be a good chunk of story.
Its purposeless weirdness cannot save it from the dullness of the overall experience.