Review: Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich
Jun. 11th, 2022 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smalltimereadsVirtuoso by Yelena Moskovich was published by Two Dollar Radio. I bought Virtuoso and Moskovich's A Door Behind a Door as part of TDR's Double Exposure sale.
I finished Virtuoso yesterday and I've been trying to think about how to write about it. One thing I thought while reading it was "it has a bunch of different characters at a bunch of different times in a bunch of different places," which. That's a lot of stories, so not all that helpful or descriptive really. But the structure of the book is interesting and often confusing- there were moments where I thought "Oh, I see now how this fits together," only for a later chapter to reveal something new that made the pieces not fit together after all. I liked the prose- I liked the run on thoughts and choppy divisions and descriptions. It was simultaneously blunt and obtuse at times, which was interesting to read, if a little frustrating at times. Some of the word choices weren't ~my ideal~ but they fit with the story, which is more important.
Virtuoso is about three women, and also two girls in a chatroom, and also a mysterious bar and some weird mysterious children. But mostly it's about the three women, and how they live and grow and the people they meet. Theirs were the parts I understood the most, or at least felt like I understood the most. The chatroom plotline was a weird mystery, and the bar and kids were just weird. I might have to read this again at some point to see if familiarity helps me better understand how they fit into the story. This book also has one of the weirder assault scenes I've read- not really graphic or upsetting, just weird.
Really, I'm not sure how to feel about this book, but it was interesting and made me think, and I'm curious as to what the experience of reading A Door Behind a Door will be like.
I finished Virtuoso yesterday and I've been trying to think about how to write about it. One thing I thought while reading it was "it has a bunch of different characters at a bunch of different times in a bunch of different places," which. That's a lot of stories, so not all that helpful or descriptive really. But the structure of the book is interesting and often confusing- there were moments where I thought "Oh, I see now how this fits together," only for a later chapter to reveal something new that made the pieces not fit together after all. I liked the prose- I liked the run on thoughts and choppy divisions and descriptions. It was simultaneously blunt and obtuse at times, which was interesting to read, if a little frustrating at times. Some of the word choices weren't ~my ideal~ but they fit with the story, which is more important.
Virtuoso is about three women, and also two girls in a chatroom, and also a mysterious bar and some weird mysterious children. But mostly it's about the three women, and how they live and grow and the people they meet. Theirs were the parts I understood the most, or at least felt like I understood the most. The chatroom plotline was a weird mystery, and the bar and kids were just weird. I might have to read this again at some point to see if familiarity helps me better understand how they fit into the story. This book also has one of the weirder assault scenes I've read- not really graphic or upsetting, just weird.
Really, I'm not sure how to feel about this book, but it was interesting and made me think, and I'm curious as to what the experience of reading A Door Behind a Door will be like.
