“Straining to be profound” – Mere Chances by Veronika Simoniti

"...basic ingredients are too often left wanting. In story after story, characters don’t really develop. They fail to become living, breathing entities that the reader wants to invest in. Dialogue is over-dramatised or stilted. And plots twist with a ta dah! in mind. The end result is that these stories, concerning small lives going quietly wrong, lack ‘immersion’ - the reader is too often left skimming the surface..." - Tamim Sadikali reviews Mere Chances by Veronika Simoniti

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