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Review Date: 6/9/2014
While the details of Enrique's journey were troubling and heartbreaking, the manor in which it was written lacked any emotion. It was a litany of facts and figures with a lot of names thrown in for good measure. It was hard to feel anything, it was like reading a text book or watching an episode of Animal Kingdom: watch as the young Honduran mother leaves her child behind to search for money and food in a foreign country. Will the child survive will it grow to resent her.... There were almost too many horrifying details to the point of desensitization. If the writer had concentrated only Enrique's Journey and not that of hundreds of others trying to flee the oppression and poverty of their countries it would have been easier to become emotionally involved in his journey and outcome.
Review Date: 11/15/2017
I read A Man Called Ove and enjoyed so I thought I would like this one as well. But honestly, I could barely finish it. It was predicable yet convoluted and unrealistic. There is no way a 7 year old would be running around they way she does nor would her vocabulary and understanding of the human condition be as sophisticated. And the whole premise of the fairytale back story was just plain annoying. If I wanted to read a Harry Potter book I would read one.
Review Date: 9/27/2017
I did enjoy this book. But I felt there was a fair amount of superfluous information that could have been edited out and knocked about 100 pages off the 411 total. It was very interesting to read about the politics behind medical research and the incredible leaps that have been made in medicine. I, however, was expecting more a dive into patient HM's life an history. Whereas the story was really about the author's family.
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