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Title: This book sucked.
Review: Bryan Charles is obsessed with showing you how cool he is. But when you read his strange, jarring prose you don't marvel at BC's creativity; you just think he's spewing nonsense. I'm usually a fast reader, but Grab Onto Me Tightly took me almost a week because I kept getting stuck on lines like"You want to rip out her scars and eat them like Twizzlers""Heart as collapsed time, a dug-up grave, a simple machine""this almost-city recedes in flame and the sun's ghost becomes our breath"If your desire to sound clever makes your book totally unreadable, you're probably doing something wrong.I had another gripe with the book: I had no idea why the protagonist did most of the things he did. However, he was appealing, as were the refreshingly nonstereotypical supporting characters. I'm sure the book would have been totally decent if not for the writing. As is it is, though, it's only useful as an example of what not to do.PS-BC doesn't know how to spell "Gretsch"
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