Unspeakable by Caroline Pignat
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
I was excited to read a story half set in Canada and half in the UK and on top of that it was written by a Canadian author, what was not to like? How about the fact that it was one step short of completely plagiarizing the story of Titanic? Or the inclusion of every Victorian literary cliché ever to exist? Or its complete and utter predictability? Well, I was so disappointed that I got angry. Angry that I spent time reading this story; a complete knockoff from a very popular movie that came out in 1997, which by the way I saw in the theatre. As a writer, one should come up with their own ideas.
I guess, I should talk about the characters, although I would much rather move on. The characters are all very typical of the role they are supposed to play: the female lead, emo, entitled and ungrateful; the friend, always happy and better than the protagonist; the main squeeze, a typical McDreamy type, brooding and really never a good choice, but always the one to get the girl; and of course a whole bunch of other characters nobody really cares about.
The plot is, as I said, straight from the Titanic screenplay and just when the reader thinks the writer has gone too far in “borrowing” from the movie, she puts her own little spin on it to avoid full on plagiarism.
The writing is boring, tedious and empty. Most chapters contained more fluff that added nothing to the progression of the story and only round about and repeated insight into the protagonist’s feelings.
Overall, I was just glad I got this book from the library and didn’t spend any money on it. My time wasted on it, I will never get back, but I can advise against reading this book.
