It wasn’t enough to see the world through Ariane’s eyes because if I have no anchor point to build her situation on and around, Ariane can not fully flesh out to me. Still, as a reader, I need more visual descriptions of the situation around Ariane, so I can anchor her to a point. What has happened? I am lost.”ĭescription-wise, the author nails Ariane’s confusion about her situation. This is not my bedroom, nor is it any hospital I would be sent to. I struggle to remain calm, but I can already feel the onset of panic. I hope there is no one around to witness my shame! The thought is born and dies in an instant. I take a deep breath in, which promptly turns into a coughing fit as I spit… something on the ground.Īgh! Disgusting. However, one of the initial problems I ran into was that the author’s style of dialog left me disconnected from the world Ariane found herself in.įor example, the first few lines of the book are: It helps explain some of Ariane’s thoughts, reactions, and rationales. There are certain sensibilities and characterizations that one associates with this era that the author hints at. Ariane is a southern belle type of woman in the south in the 1800s. As a reader, you become intimately involved in every feeling, desire, and passing thought that the main character Ariane has. As much as I hoped, A Journey of Black and Red by Alex Gilbert did not get its hooks in me.įirstly, I want to commend the author on the effort they put into the stream-of-conscious type first-person narration of the main character.
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