This is not Harry Potter. It's not even really relatable to Harry Potter, except in that Rowling still performs best when writing about young people - but even then, it's still almost apples to oranges. This is an epic tapestry of a book, weaving together so many threads and stories and characters...
Unpopular opinion reporting to duty.The writing is not as polished as some I’ve read, the editor could have exercised a sharper scalpel at times, and the ending felt like a bit too tidy a bow: A single would have sufficed instead of a double. But. It’s funny I use that word to justify a five star ra...
Non negherò che non mi sarei mai avvicinata a Il Seggio Vacante se non l’avesse scritto J.K. Rowling; e anche prima di iniziarlo i miei dubbi erano molti, dato che non è assolutamente il genere di libro che io abbia mai sentito il bisogno di leggere. Ma io faccio parte della generazione Harry Potter...
I'm sure I'll finish this at some point. It wasn't poorly written or anything, and I think that the story it tells is important, but I grew up in poverty, so I'm just kind of not the target audience here. Parts of it were so painful to read I had to set it down and wait a day or two to come back.
There was this TV show in the early 90s called “Keeping Up Appearances,” about this crazy woman named Hyacinth who went to outrageous lengths to keep up appearances. The story if I remember correctly was set in a quaint village with a host of colourful characters to offset the wacky Hyacinth. The Ca...
Not really my thing. She built an interesting, inter-connected world, but I really don't like reading about chavs. And the ending was too open and depressing for my liking.
This book reminded me a lot of Elizabeth George's novels (minus the murder) in that it focused very much on human relationships and feelings...and it didn't paint a nice picture of humanity (to illustrate: on my 'List of characters in this book I want to see dying a slow and painful death' the guy w...
Check out this review and others like it at BadAssBookReviewsCasual Vacancy is a beautifully written work of art. Nothing has been missed in the story. No storyline was neglected. Every character and every scene is perfectly orchestrated to completion. Reading Casual Vacancy is like eating that per...
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