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Book Review of The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel
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What a disappointment! Not a single character in this book was likable, the story was ridiculous, it bounced around in a chaotic manner, and ended anticlimactically. I don't even understand the point of the book. What was the purpose of the story? Noa is on death row for a murder that she may or may not have committed - which at one point I really no longer cared if she did or didn't - and is visited by the mother of the victim who is trying to gain her clemency - why?? I still don't know... On top of all that, the word choice that the author uses makes the story very hard to read. It was like she was trying to make herself seem like a better storyteller by using "big" words but unfortunately they made the story less enjoyable and the characters more dislikable.