Then We Came To The End
Then We Came To The End, June 2009, 6.5/10.
Written by Joshua Ferris. Published by Little, Brown and Company.
This novel, one of the NY Times best books of the year in 2007, was disappointing. Although substantially better than the typical output of a creative writing workshop, it still felt and read as though it was rooted in that environment, and although the book did tick all the boxes of what one would expect from a first novel by a new and exciting young author (black humour, fast dialogue, varying narrative perspectives, etc.) I felt that the novel never really developed as it could have. Filled with forgettable characters, the passably interesting plotline was nicely handled, with the obligatory twists and turns, but in this case the story was not mature enough to make them particularly exciting.
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