Alex’s Reviews > Arctic Chill > Status Update
Alex
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I kept waiting for this "famous bestseller" to pick up pace, but I'm a quarter of the way through and it's not happening. The reader is assumed to be familiar with all the major players, and it took me a few tens of pages to learn that one of them was a female, and that only accidentally. The English translation makes all characters speak identically which is not helpful either. Hope things will improve later on!
— Feb 10, 2011 04:13AM
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Alex
is on page 176 of 352
Although the pace is still set on Arctic Snail, once I came to terms with its journalistic prose style the book finally took some shape. The characters all share a simple, common hate for each other, except for Sunnee who loves her son, but even that is one-sided. The translation still is like re-reading my 7th grade English manual. Everyone speaks the same unlikely pure, clean and stereotypical Queen's English...
— Feb 13, 2011 10:23PM