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Colin Cogle

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I read when I get around to it, and I write when I get around to it. You can also find me on Mastodon for my non-literary hot takes.

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Alison Rumfitt: Tell Me I'm Worthless (2021, Cipher Press)

A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …

Review of "Tell Me I'm Worthless" on 'Goodreads'

It’s not the content I don’t like. It’s the writing style. The stream of consciousness devolves into sentences that are paragraphs long, and paragraphs that span multiple pages. Sometimes I just had to skip ahead past the unneeded description and fantasizing until the plot resumed. I still can’t figure out how the book ended, even after re-reading it.

I’d read another of this author’s books, though. I feel like there was some great promise here, but it was poorly executed.