by Alice Hoffman
Evident by the amount of time it took for me to complete this book, The Ice Queen was hardly readable. The key to keeping a reader is ensuring that the general audience can relate and sympathize with the protagonist. The nameless woman who makes a wish at the age of eight years old was irreparably a...
This book ripped my heart out then threw it against the wall only to pick it up, stomp and kick at it with steel toed boots. In the misery, the bleakness and the dark hole that became my chest there was a light weak but bright. The author was able to keep me focused on that little light, it wasn'...
Audiobook.Oh my gosh! First of all I've liked the narrator/actress [a:Nancy Travis|1205829|Nancy Travis|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1379015694p2/1205829.jpg] on TV and in the few movies I've seen her one but I have never realized what a great actress she is. The bitterness, hurt, ...
3.5 starsA haunting story filled with magic realism and heartache about a woman forced to come to terms with herself and her past. Kudos for making this about a death-obsessed librarian. A quality read.
This was not a long book and it was not particularly poorly written, but it just wasn't compelling enough to move me forward in a reasonable fashion. I can emphasize with the main character (I too find most people tedious and keep myself aloof, I am good at being useful without having friends), but...
Incoherent, dull, depressing and the nameless protagonist is unsympathetic to the point where you just don't want to hear her thoughts anymore.Although the last chapter did pick up, it was too little too late.
The beginning was too sad for me. Depressive. Dark. Overpowering. I didn't connect to the main character immediately. I was slightly disturbed that she was never given a name and that her interactions with her lover weren't as developed as I had wanted. There was plenty of material to go on there. A...
I can't really say that I was a big fan of this book. The beginning began so promisingly, and I was very interested to see what happened. But very quickly, I stopped caring about the main character. She was selfish and self-centered, admittedly so, as though this would allow the reader to forgive he...
Having recently listened to Practical Magic again as well as by another Hoffman book, I thought I'd check out more of her stuff. I tend to like her writing but realized I haven't really read many of her works.This one was a bit disappointing.There was no supernatural background. Not that that's what...
I wept while reading the final chapter.The first-person protagonist, in a spat with Mom on Mom’s 30th birthday, wishes her dead. Mom’s demise that night defines the eight-year-old girl. She will express no love, no affection. She will listen only, go along. She embraces death, removing herself from ...
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