Status Updates From Vita Nostra (Метаморфозы, #1)

“Sasha, do you consider yourself a corporeal entity?”

Finished “Part I” and what Sasha is learning is still very shrouded. Her teachers keep telling her she couldn’t understand. I guess it’s giving her super abilities, though, kind of? Something about seeing beyond this plane of reality? If the book would stop playing games and get to what it wants to say already, it could be interesting. But now I’m nearly halfway through and still frustrated.

Still waiting for the plot to become clearer at 1/4 in. Sasha is at school now, learning… what exactly? She doesn’t know, and everybody is intentionally, frustratingly cryptic about it when she asks. There’s only so much of this obfuscation I can take. Mystery alone isn’t enough to sustain a story. Hopefully I’m just around the bend from where things come into view and I’ll find I’m speaking too soon.