Blame
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374114305 (0374114307)
Publish date: September 1st 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 291
Edition language: English
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/04/review-blame-by-michelle-huneven.html
This book was way overhyped. Its not a bad book, just not great. To go into a lot of detail about why I didn't find it above average would largely spoil the plot so I'm not going to go there. Suffice it to say after a pretty good first third the book bogs down in the middle third. The end is tel...
So I think I understand what Huneven was trying to do with this novel. I think she was trying to talk about how addiction affects us all and that it supercedes class and that the guilt that we all carry around inside may or may not be justified or earned, but we all need to live through it and wit...
Originally published at my blog Chasing Empty PavementsSo my review of this novel is kind of like reviewing an old friend because I’ve been reading this book over the course of the last couple months for my Novel Writing class. Reading something over a couple months span I’ve realized has its pros. ...
I have no idea if I like this book or not. I read it steadily and enjoyed doing so but parts are four star and parts are only two. Thus, I've rated it three. The writing is wonderfully fluid and the story intriguing yet there are errors, eg. the ages of the characters not making sense from one secti...