My eyeball-o-meter popped off the charts with this one. What is an eyeball-o-meter? That when almost every character, minor characters, major characters, even characters who appear for a split second and don't have any dialogue, roll their eyeballs instead of thinking, showing emotion, or saying something worthwhile. There was so much eyeball rolling that it took me out of the story. I'd think not again, because there was so much of that going on.
My smirk-o-meter didn't top out but it did tremble a bit. There was some smirking going on, too. There seems to be a lot of smirking and eyeball rolling in current books. An otherwise original book as to be like all the others when it comes to facial cliches. C'mon authors, do better.
Thanks to Netgalley for providing this ARC of Sorrowland.
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