Joycelyn A. (JMJGE) reviewed on
Helpful Score: 1
The Sandcastle Girls is to me obviously an important work for the author. I wanted to like this story, but I found it predictable, and the narrator Laura uninteresting.
Laura did not come across as someone who was driven to find out about her Grandparents and her heritage, only curious. There certainly was not any tension in the book; you knew the end at the beginning. Elizabeth would find Armen again because he would survive. The interesting part of the book, the parts that were gripping, incredibly sad, and graphic were the pages written about the women and the children forced to march across the desert in a genocide that most of us know little or nothing about.
I am glad to have read this story, and I recommend it to everyone. It is a part of history that is little known, and stands as a memorial to the Armenian people, and their incredible courage in the face of evil.
Laura did not come across as someone who was driven to find out about her Grandparents and her heritage, only curious. There certainly was not any tension in the book; you knew the end at the beginning. Elizabeth would find Armen again because he would survive. The interesting part of the book, the parts that were gripping, incredibly sad, and graphic were the pages written about the women and the children forced to march across the desert in a genocide that most of us know little or nothing about.
I am glad to have read this story, and I recommend it to everyone. It is a part of history that is little known, and stands as a memorial to the Armenian people, and their incredible courage in the face of evil.
