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Book Review of Practical Magic

Practical Magic
Practical Magic
Author: Alice Hoffman
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


This book is laid out in parts, these parts should have had chapters.

My biggest beef with this book is that it doesn't have chapters. Hell, even some kind of breaks in between ideas would have worked. There's no breaks between where one section ends and another should begin. It all flows together like some confusing ocean. It was hard to follow and keep my thoughts together while reading because it jumps around in the parts without any kind of breaks, without any kind of chapters. This book should have been laid out better. It feels like an amateur wrote it.

This of course isn't to say that the story is awful. Though, yes, I preferred the movie, this novel was an alright read. As I began I felt excited to be reading it. I'd wanted to read this book for quite some time, and I was disappointed that I couldn't find the time to finish it in October when I started reading it. The story was quite good at the beginning, but I eventually started to lose interest. It didn't give me that wonderful feeling that the movie did. I loathed the idea that the book and movie had differences in how things played out. In fact, I'd hardly say they are the same at all. If you seen the movie first and enjoyed it, you might not like the book. If you enjoyed the book and haven't seen the movie, you might not like the movie.

All in all, I was a little disappointed in this read. Though I don't consider it time wasted.