73pctGeek reviewed Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeny
Too silly for my tastes
2 stars
An author, struggling after the disappearance of his wife, takes his agent up on her offer and retreats to an island in order to write his next novel.
This was not for me. Rife with weak characters, and poor writing, the prose is fussy and simplistic with no differentiation between different “voices” or styles of writing. F.ex. “newspaper articles” read like the rest of the prose, lacking any journalistic verisimilitude. I also don’t consider stupid shit which is in no way foreshadowed or supported by the writing a “twist”. Not unfinishable, but a waste of my time.