McBride weaves a magic spell

Well she certainly seduced me, though I’d have to say it’s as much McBride’s hypnotic reading as the writing, which was an interesting combination of rich language combined with endless idiom. Those idioms started to grate at times and felt a little like a filling device, but they also serve to spotlight the finer language style McBride has used to portray the meandering anxiety of her character’s mind. I liked the character very much, and found much I could relate too, an uneasy yet addictive familiarity. I was about half way through and still a little undecided when McBride writes (and reads so well) an emotional clincher. It’s clever stuff and the whole listen at times felt like an indulgent guilty and very visual pleasure. The narrow style and short length of the book at the very least lends itself as a good palette cleanser between meatier reads but this is also a book I’ll be buying in print to read from the page as it was also beguiling. Try it, you might like it!

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