Saturday, September 27, 2025

Review: THE WRITER by Miranda Smith

 


A writer’s struggle to write something is a battle every author knows too well. Becca couldn’t be more discouraged at this point. Somehow, she finds it in her to start writing a new story.

 

It takes a while to get to the story as a whole. Right away, you wonder about those black hearts randomly placed in certain locations. What was the deal with that? What was Becca guilty of?

 

The lagging areas include the dream sequences and the story within the story. By chapter 15, we see that “someone is acting out the crimes we wrote about.” Even at this point, I couldn’t really get that into the story. Figuring who of the writers in the writer’s group was the killer was pretty interesting, but it wasn’t enough to compensate for the lengthy and mild read as a whole. For crying out loud, we don’t even get to see what Becca’s mental deal was.

 

“Not My Mother” turned out to be way better than this. An okay read.

 

Rating: 3 stars

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