Biblibio's Reviews > Inez: A Novel

From a technical perspective, I don't think this is a particularly good book. It's got a pretty odd balance between its different stories and ideas, and ultimately the story veers off-track to a lot of navel-gazing and self-centered blathering, but in parts the writing is so sharp that I found myself rather enjoying the book as a weird concept. The entire early people concept was bizarre in the context of the rest of the novel (novella?), but it works as a separate story and it works bitingly at times, with a perspective and writing that just made me laugh out loud. It's so different, and unlike the rest of the book, it doesn't feel like it's trying too hard. It just is. And while the musical themes ultimately bored me (which is surprising, given that I myself am/was a musician), I think there are enough flashes of good here to justify it. This is a short enough book that you can just read it for the occasional bits of brilliance, while largely letting the rest fade into the fog of your memory...