rosie’s Reviews > Taipei Story > Status Update

still the paragraph structures are the same. she goes into very in-depth explanations of scenery or history that has an overall disconnected tone, and the last sentence always serves as an emotional wrap-up for lily that, if you aren’t expecting more from a novelist of over five books, could be considered heavy-hitting but really are just lackluster. lily hasn’t proved at all that she’s introspective

I never thought i'd be the kind of person who noticed sentence structure/grammatical phrasing but so many of her paragraphs have the same syntax and cadence that lily feels stifled from actually expressing genuine complex thoughts