For a 1st novel, this is promising but ultimately middling-poor in quality. A more astute editor would've shaved this down by at least a hundred pages & far too often what is intended to be meaningful is actually trite or rather purple prose.
For a 1st novel, this is promising but ultimately middling-poor in quality. A more astute editor would've shaved this down by at least a hundred pages & far too often what is intended to be meaningful is actually trite or rather purple prose.
A nice element in this is how Pynchon becomes the dude-bro bible that the mc Suzy has to put up with
There are passages seeming to dance on the edge of merit, at any moment about to dive into pretentiousness or emerge poetic
There's a stylized dullness to this story that's making it difficult to endure it
There was a lot to like about Fly Me, Daniel Riley's fun debut. Set in So Cal in 1972, the book tells the story of Suzy, a new college grad turned stewardess. She falls into every possible cliche of the era, including drug smuggling. The start was slow and the ending crazy, but the middle made up for it. Full review here: http://www.novelvisits.com/fly-me-daniel-riley-review/