I just finished reading Sister: A Novel, by Rosamund Lupton. The book has gotten generally very good reviews, but I found it to be a pretty big disappointment. The book has a very specific literary device that it relies on for its structure, and I found the device to be both confusing and annoying. This could be because I read ebooks on my iPhone, and perhaps the font was too small to pick up on the all-important quotation marks.
The device is this: the story is told in the first person as if it is being spoken or written (it is not made clear which). The main character, Beatrice, is speaking to . . . → Read More: Sister: A Novel by Rosamund Lupton is Crippled by Its Own Artifice
