meghab1792 t1_ja951c4 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Reply to comment by TheUnvanquishable in Our Wives Under the Sea is the BEST book I've read in a long time and I just wanna talk about it by Starlit-Sage

I was interested in the concept but I don’t think I can get past this YA writing style.

Starlit-Sage OP t1_ja9qehe wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:45 PM

I'm curious as to what you mean by "YA writing style." It didn't feel that way at all to me, so my interpretation of "YA" must be different.

manshamer t1_jabawyn wrote on February 28, 2023 at 4:42 AM

To me, it's clunky and there are a handful of errors that affect flow and sentence structure (assuming the other poster transcribed correctly). Also, the use of 3rd person present tense is most common in YA. Of course this is just the first two paragraphs and personally I bet I could get used to it quickly.

Starlit-Sage OP t1_jaekkhy wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:37 PM

Ahh okay, I can see that. It's actually in first person, from Miri's perspective, but there isn't a chance for "I" yet because she's describing what Leah is saying and doing here at the beginning. Alternating chapters are from Leah's perspective in the submarine.

I don't have my copy next to me, but I think the first line is italicized and it's supposed to be something Leah just said.... I think "unstill" is also italicized to show that it's the word Leah says.