Chime
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780747583813 (0747583811)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
[This is an old review that I realized I'd never posted. My rating is from back when I had to do Goodreads rating rounding. Maybe I'd have given it 2.5-stars if I could have? I have no idea.] Chime is a mix of fantasy and historical-ish fiction. The description interested me, and I liked the audio...
Actual rating: 4.5 stars.Rose was the best.
“I love you.”Word magic. If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?This is a complicated book to review.First of all, the writing is amazing. Most of the dialogues are brilliant...
This book is odd for sure, and it's not an easy read. I have to agree with other reviewers that Briony has the strangeness of Merricat in [b:We Have Always Lived in the Castle|89724|We Have Always Lived in the Castle|Shirley Jackson|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1311400048s/89724.jpg|847007], and her...
Objectively, this is probably a pretty good book. I'm most likely being unfair to it, but I just . . . didn't care for it.The writing was usually really good, but way too abstract for me - I got tired of translating Briony's voice into plain English. She also repeats herself a lot, and honestly she'...
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