Riane’s Reviews > The Summer Without Men > Status Update

Ending this feels like a stretch fully stretched since the narrative diversions occur at almost every page. Confusion was ensured with its constant referencing to parallels in Literature, Science, Arts, History and well researched ideas throughout centuries' development.

With Women Studies, its author's central idea and lens, this ended with a maturing female perspective sprinkled with skepticism and discrepancy.

The writing is now arduous and lengthy in distractive narratives and fourth wall ruptures of text and monologued internal or narrated thoughts. Confusion erupting at every page turn as each point is prolonged by an unrelated and highly scientific diversion thought halted only if the reader is unaware or without understanding of the endless references.

Understood with much patience as direction is unpredictable.