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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A beautiful, incredible thing, a perfect novel.
A wonderful debut from a writer who easily sits at the historical fiction table with the likes of Kate Quinn and Kate Morton. The Whalebone Theatre has all the beloved elements - a tired English mansion, the derring-do of secret agents, strong female characters, a splash of humor, no shortage of heartbreak - all taken up a serious notch by the quality of Quinn's prose. She offers smart dialogue, poignant observation, and lovely physical descriptions. When people describe books as transporting, this is what they mean. I tumbled right in and emerged feeling as if I'd actually spent the hours in 1920's Dorchester or 1940's Paris. Fantastic.
A fantastic novel. I was captivated. The story follows three children from an aristocratic family growing up in an old English mansion during and right after the First World War and then later as young adults living through the Second World War. The three children are mostly left to their own devices and from a bond that is the fabric of the entire story. From running around playing with toy swords, to finding a whale on a beach, to preforming Shakespeare in an outdoor theater to growing vegetables to feed the nation and travelling to occupied France to fight against the Germans.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
So. Freaking. Boring. DNF at 65%.
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
At times I thought it could go in a bit much about things but it all was important to the characters journey.
Wow, this book. As a theatre director myself I loved this aspect of this but overall it was the depth of the characters and how vividly each situation, place and time were captured.
I was unsure if this was 5*’s because it took a while to read but it also moved me and inspired me in a very different way to your average page turner.
I was unsure if this was 5*’s because it took a while to read but it also moved me and inspired me in a very different way to your average page turner.
Found it to be very slow, and I hated how miserable everyone clearly was with no hope of changing that
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes