This novel has a sprawling cast of characters and it takes quite a while to comprehend how they are related to one another. The plot gets tighter and tighter and even a bit amusing as you get near the end, so hang in there.
Atkinson has an amazing ability to show you the inner worlds of very diverse people, and I love that about her writing. In the first third of the novel, though, there were quite a lot of British in-references that I could not understand in the slightest.
Overall, a pleasing read. Maybe my second or third Jackson Brodie book (he is Atkinson's detective), and I would definitely try another!
Atkinson has an amazing ability to show you the inner worlds of very diverse people, and I love that about her writing. In the first third of the novel, though, there were quite a lot of British in-references that I could not understand in the slightest.
Overall, a pleasing read. Maybe my second or third Jackson Brodie book (he is Atkinson's detective), and I would definitely try another!
What a boring, terribly written piece of crap!
At the 50 page mark I gave up and you may think 'what after only 50 pages?' well it is so boring and so many characters introduced that is just a confusing boring mess and I had no desire to waste anymore time on crap like this one!
I usually give a book 50-100 pages but not this one, the writing is so terrible and just bores you to tears (if possible), nothing is happening but introducing characters that aren't connected so what's the point?
TERRIBLE!
At the 50 page mark I gave up and you may think 'what after only 50 pages?' well it is so boring and so many characters introduced that is just a confusing boring mess and I had no desire to waste anymore time on crap like this one!
I usually give a book 50-100 pages but not this one, the writing is so terrible and just bores you to tears (if possible), nothing is happening but introducing characters that aren't connected so what's the point?
TERRIBLE!
