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alisarae's Reviews (1.65k)
Fantastic story telling, global and local perspectives, lovely art, and cultural accuracy!
Que linda! Amor, aventura, amizade.... e não é tão difícil ler.
I love fairy tales written for a new generation. Elements of the old, the skin of the new, somewhat detached from today and therefore timeless for tomorrow.
I liked this book for showing me a way of looking at the world that is familiar and yet not. I liked the beginning and I liked the end. I like that the author attempted to do something that is not frequently done. And he did it well.
I have two biases that automatically make me dislike this book:
1. I don't like novels written in the first person.
2. I don't like reading dream sequences, flash backs, or hallucinations.
Ways this book could have been better:
1. Rewritten as a screenplay directed by Sam Mendes or Terence Young.
2. Rewritten as a play.
3. The husband could have shown clues of being sinister earlier on, instead of just the last chapter.
4. Christine should have been more bewildered, lonely, scared, and not so easily satisfied after her hysterical outbursts.
5. Everything that happens in the last 5 pages should have been drawn out to seem more believable.
1. I don't like novels written in the first person.
2. I don't like reading dream sequences, flash backs, or hallucinations.
Ways this book could have been better:
1. Rewritten as a screenplay directed by Sam Mendes or Terence Young.
2. Rewritten as a play.
3. The husband could have shown clues of being sinister earlier on, instead of just the last chapter.
4. Christine should have been more bewildered, lonely, scared, and not so easily satisfied after her hysterical outbursts.
5. Everything that happens in the last 5 pages should have been drawn out to seem more believable.
Consistent, thoughtfully voiced, deliberate, dextrous. I love the feeling of a slow dawning of realization that this evokes.