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THE TOM DRAKE EXPERIENCE

Shallow Dreams

Editor: Grace McDermott
August 21, 2008

(Review written after reading 10 chapters).

A part of me feels as though I’m reading a paid advertisement – so many brands are mentioned, and their features and details are expounded upon.

I feel as though I’m reading about the life of a magazine ad – not the model within, who is probably only using their body to pay for university, but the character portrayed within. The man at the bar with the flawless suit and the perfectly photogenic drink.

I am sure that there are people who base their entire life around their wardrobe, but being inside the POV of a vapid fashionista isn’t compelling.

There were two real emotion – inexplicable anger in a bar, which was more disturbing than anything, leading one to wonder exactly how stable the MC is, and one flashback to a rejection by a girl in high school.

The style is also somehow awkward – it doesn’t flow as it should (especially considering that "flow" is one of the words in the tagline).

There’s no chapter list either – meaning that you have to click back through the pages of posts in order to find the beginning – however this is a rather easy fix.

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