An Empty Room

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Summary: Brilliant debut
Review: Emily is stuck in a sweltering london before university and she falls in love. She is a romantic and realist and lives in a world of people who lie and manipulate and yet somehow get on with their lives together. It is a book about survival and written in an everyday language which is at times rivals anything that modern poetry can offer.
A wonderful debut novel.

Rating:
Summary: Good plot but college sophomore writing
Review: The idea of this book was very good - she should have taken it and run with it. Instead, it comes off like a college kid's composition paper, trying to sound grown-up with an eye towards having the absolute most similes and metaphors per page ever. If you get past the pretentiousness and find this debut author a new editor, she should be very good.