I found it interesting the "hero" of this story is a dead man. The majority of the characters being developed are not very likeable. The teenagers are much more well developed than the older characters in my opinion. The story is really quite gripping initially and I powered through this book. Howev...
I found it interesting the "hero" of this story is a dead man. The majority of the characters being developed are not very likeable. The teenagers are much more well developed than the older characters in my opinion. The story is really quite gripping initially and I powered through this book. Howev...
I started this book in May. MAY. I had the hardest time getting into it at first, the redundancy was murderizing my will to continue. I was going to quit, but I had read a few discussions about it, finding there were many people that were feeling the same way, but they were persuaded to keep goi...
I wish I hadn't waited so long to read this book. It's been sitting on my TBR list and I kept passing it up. Then I saw that HBO was making a mini-series out of it and I didn't want to watch it before I read it. What an incredible character study. Rowling connects the citizens in Pagford to one an...
Brief Background: The small country town of Pagford is shocked when Parish Councillor and well known townsman Barry Fairbrother suddenly dies of an aneurysm. In his absence, a seat on the local council is vacated and a race to fill it ensues between the factions concerned with social welfare, and th...
So I was a little slow getting around to reading this book. Honestly, it’s because the last four Harry Potter books felt, well, bloated to be honest. Well, this isn’t Harry Potter. It’s Jane Austen with teeth. And not vampire teeth either. It’s the claws that ...
This book is absolutely phenomenal.The descriptions are excellent. The character development is fantastic. The depth of each person in the text is truly amazing.While the book starts out a bit slow as it introduces the many, many characters that come alive in its pages, it picks up fairly quickly an...
Review originally from my Goodreads account, written April 2013.I had a lot of mixed feelings about this book, but in the end I really ended up liking it. A lot of other reviewers advised, "Pretend it's NOT written by J.K. Rowling!!" Which I tried, but just couldn't. It IS J.K. Rowling, and powerful...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, tbr-busting-2015, published-2012, mystery-thriller, britain-england, class-war, abandoned Read from April 14, 2012 to February 15, 2015 Description: The Casual Vacancy centres on Pagford, a seemingly idyllic English village with a cobbled market square and ancient ...
J.K Rowling admits to being a big Jane Austen fan and I think it's very easy to see the Austen influence in both the narrative voice and the stream of consciousness she uses. personally, I love it- to me It feels like being wrapped in a cocoon and carried through the story. It was quite well publi...
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