After Life Passes By
By Fiona Chen
Fond of slow poignant tale of adolescent angst with the right amount of nonchalant quality? If yes, then Nick Earl’s After January is the book for you. Set on Queensland’s sunshine coast, the novel portrays the life of a teenage boy who awaits his tertiary offer. Among the dreary activity he incorporates during the summer holidays, he catches sight and falls in love with a girl named Fortuna.
Somehow, the only entertainment Alex can find is to wait. “This January I’m waiting for my offer, waiting for the code that will tell me what happens next. Waiting.” (pg. 15). This unique and unsatisfying technique to spend most of his summer holidays has given an insight to the first few chapters as being useless and unappealing. In page 21, the protagonist describes his current life in a bubble, “I catch a wave. And it’s as though I’m passing through this summer in a bubble. Vaguely detached and drifting…squandering these …show more content…
Their dialogue is clumsily constructed where speeches are merged with the text leaving me to grasps what the author is trying to convey.
There are way too many repetitive sections throughout the book. QUOTE. Each day just goes on and on with major anticlimaxes and predictable scenes. Have tried to swallow each dramatic scene till the end…(not) and at least return with a less that average impression of Nick Earls but with no luck.
I promise, you will be able to skip half the book and continue reading with no problems whatsoever. The ending however brought tears to my eyes...written with half-hearted sense which made it somewhat misanthropic.
The book resonates primarily with male audiences however female readers may also gain an insight to the inner cogs of boy’s mind during a
By Fiona Chen
Fond of slow poignant tale of adolescent angst with the right amount of nonchalant quality? If yes, then Nick Earl’s After January is the book for you. Set on Queensland’s sunshine coast, the novel portrays the life of a teenage boy who awaits his tertiary offer. Among the dreary activity he incorporates during the summer holidays, he catches sight and falls in love with a girl named Fortuna.
Somehow, the only entertainment Alex can find is to wait. “This January I’m waiting for my offer, waiting for the code that will tell me what happens next. Waiting.” (pg. 15). This unique and unsatisfying technique to spend most of his summer holidays has given an insight to the first few chapters as being useless and unappealing. In page 21, the protagonist describes his current life in a bubble, “I catch a wave. And it’s as though I’m passing through this summer in a bubble. Vaguely detached and drifting…squandering these …show more content…
Their dialogue is clumsily constructed where speeches are merged with the text leaving me to grasps what the author is trying to convey.
There are way too many repetitive sections throughout the book. QUOTE. Each day just goes on and on with major anticlimaxes and predictable scenes. Have tried to swallow each dramatic scene till the end…(not) and at least return with a less that average impression of Nick Earls but with no luck.
I promise, you will be able to skip half the book and continue reading with no problems whatsoever. The ending however brought tears to my eyes...written with half-hearted sense which made it somewhat misanthropic.
The book resonates primarily with male audiences however female readers may also gain an insight to the inner cogs of boy’s mind during a