Some Quiet Place Kelsey Sutton Flux Books Pub Date   Jul 8 2013 This story had a lot of potential but overall I found it an unsatisfying read due to lack of conceptual clarity, a disjointed plot in the first half of the book and scenes that were longer than they needed to be. The idea of personifying emotions is an interesting one, but it does require a certain amount of world-building as regards their purpose and their nature, something that isn't done sufficiently in this book. The questions raised about this vision of the world are many and few of them are answered, so the world really didn't hang together for me. The opportunity to make a useful statement about dealing with emotions is also missed so the personification is nothing more than a way to create an interesting character with supernatural abilities. I was quite happy to accept this, but the book had other problems as well. Elizabeth is supposed to not feel emotions, but clearly she does care, which is lucky … [Read more...]