A Jaqua

Don’t Bother

Revisado: 11-30-24

Wooden, stilted, cliche, bored me to tears. I really wanted to like it. Do not understand the good reviews.

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A sweet story about nothing

Revisado: 11-27-24

I really wanted to like this book but it never happened. The pace was waaayyyy too slow. Much of the asides dipping into the lives of the many characters did nothing to advance a plot, was there a plot? It was a long and slow journey into nothing.

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A whole lotta vapid

Revisado: 05-23-24

This might be of interest to a teenagers but not really an adult read. You can hear the author writing is the best way to describe it. A little too much of the dramatic, the precious and the cute. A lot of the scenarios were not logical or believable.

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Horrible Book

Revisado: 04-26-23

I seem to be on a planet of my own with this opinion but not only was the main character’s personality so horrible that it made me not care what happens to her but that also made it impossible to read. The main narrator is also just really bad!

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Drudgery

Revisado: 12-23-21

The story was so top heavy with the over burdened main character that it felt like the same short story was being told from 100 different angles. I could not finish it.

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HORRID

Revisado: 06-03-21

At first I thought it was the horrible narration that was making the story so irritating so I ordered the book to read it only to realize the novel itself is vapid, redundant and boring. None of the characters or the dialogue ring true. WHO snarks back during a police interview? Apparently Backman thinks that everyone does. None of the characters do anything but harass each other. The moments of clever humor are lost in all the distraction of the fake sounding dialogue. I could go on about the horrible narration but maybe the biggest head scratcher are the thousands of good reviews.

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A nice but not believable story

Revisado: 07-01-19

The of language of this book is wonderful but relied too often on the descriptions of the marsh and Kyra narrating poems making it overly sentimental and sappy. Kyra's character was incredibly one dimensional and it was frustrating to hear her thought process. The entire half of the book that dealt with the trial rings false as no such trial would have EVER taken place in ANY court in the US even back in 1970 based on such circumstantial evidence. The narrator in this story did not do the author any favors as her delivery of all of the male characters sounded like the same character.

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Unbelievably bad

Revisado: 02-05-19

I could not figure out WHY this story was so shrill and trite and overly false seeming, with the ridiculous dialogue and the female characters so wooden until I read that the actual author, under a pseudonym here, is actually a con-MAN of large degree named Dan Mallory. The New Yorker and other newspapers have done stories on him recently (2019).

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Good story, horrible narration

Revisado: 08-07-17

I'm not sure what style the narrator of Jame's character is attempting but it comes across as wooden and unskilled. So much so that it becomes irritating and distracting to the story.

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Good book, slooowwwww narrator

Revisado: 04-30-17

This story is great. The narrator is irritating slow when not performing the actual dialogue between characters. It's quite maddening.

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