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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Mi-a plăcut prima partea cel mai mult pentru că se puteau distinge firele narative și puteam interacționa mult mai bine cu personajele. În următoarele părți mi s-a părut mult mai greu de distins firele narative și motivul pentru care erau explicate viețile celorlalte personaje în profunzime. Finalul m-a lăsat dezamăgită speram să fie un capitol în care să explice găsirea comori în prezent, dar a m-am lovit de nota scriitoarei. Țesătură firelor este una complicată care te împiedică să empatizezi. Titlul este singurul lucru care întrepătrunde țesătură fiind atins într-un fel sau alt.
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A twisty-turny story set in England across many many years.
Our narrator remains the same throughout the book; she has clearly experienced all of the action so we know there is an unworldliness element to the story.
Birdy/Bertie was the muse and model for Edward Radcliffe (and don't let the name luill you into thinking this is a light romance, it isn't!), and we know from the beginning something went terribly wrong during a retreat to Edward's mysterious home.
There is a murder, a mystery, Charles Dickens, pickpockets, a girl's school, Eldrich children, female reporters, war orphans, and a lost diamond.
And with all that a smoothly integrated book.
I truly enjoyed it.
Our narrator remains the same throughout the book; she has clearly experienced all of the action so we know there is an unworldliness element to the story.
Birdy/Bertie was the muse and model for Edward Radcliffe (and don't let the name luill you into thinking this is a light romance, it isn't!), and we know from the beginning something went terribly wrong during a retreat to Edward's mysterious home.
There is a murder, a mystery, Charles Dickens, pickpockets, a girl's school, Eldrich children, female reporters, war orphans, and a lost diamond.
And with all that a smoothly integrated book.
I truly enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed this book with its layers of mystery and intrigue. The full story unfolds gradually throughout the book and there are secrets right up to the end. I loved the connection of the house to old folk tales and it being a place of safety through the generations.
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It's unnecessarily long, some of the stories of the characters were very detailed, yet didn't add to the overall plot of the book. There are lots and lots of people, timelines and the ending was just meh. For such a long book I expected a more complete ending.
What a lovely story! There are quite a few characters to follow and the points of view go back and forth, but by the end I was mesmerized. I suspected the ending but it was still good, heartbreaking but it stayed true to the story.
Book 29 in 2021
Book 29 in 2021
I like Kate Morton novels but always walk away feeling 150-200 pages could be cut out.
They are brilliant and tie together so well and with such care but I rarely fail to get antsy at some point. This book was the same experience. Still a great read but felt forever-ish.
Thanks to Negalley for the ARC.
They are brilliant and tie together so well and with such care but I rarely fail to get antsy at some point. This book was the same experience. Still a great read but felt forever-ish.
Thanks to Negalley for the ARC.
A beautifully told story about a house, a love, and a ghost....
This is my third Kate Morton book and just as her previous books were this book was a slow burn... some books are a quick little getaway this book was a journey... The journey of a house and it’s ghost, through many decades and many eyes.... an old-fashioned love story, a contemporary mystery, and so much inbetween... This story really is like a complicated and beautiful weaving... at the beginning there are so many threads none of them seeming to be connected.... but as Kate Morton begins to work the loom and weave the story together, a beautiful picture is formed... just remember when you pick this book up sometimes weaving takes some patients and effort, but the end result is so worth it!
A love story, a ghost story, a murder, a theft, a complex plot.... this book is crammed full of interesting characters with interesting lives and if I’m being completely honest sometimes we did not get to explore those lives as thoroughly as I would have liked.... The two constant characters in this book were unlikely, the house and the ghost... both were extremely engaging and intriguing, and both had a story of their own... and as the characters traveled in and out of this house through time we really saw them through the eyes of the House and the ghost... an extremely well done go story, it will make you a believer, it really was never over the top.... a perfect addition to an October read....
As much as I appreciated this book when I finished... I have to admit it was a little tough to get into in the beginning... there are a lot of characters and it seemed a little jarring and disjointed, but I had to trust... trust that Kate Morton would bring this all together and at about 30% she really did, The picture began to come together.... and at the end of the book it was quite an exquisite picture indeed!
Absolutely recommend to fans of this author and to those of you who have the patience and passion for a complex book that spans many lives and a century and a half ...
*** A huge thank you to Atria for my copy ***
This is my third Kate Morton book and just as her previous books were this book was a slow burn... some books are a quick little getaway this book was a journey... The journey of a house and it’s ghost, through many decades and many eyes.... an old-fashioned love story, a contemporary mystery, and so much inbetween... This story really is like a complicated and beautiful weaving... at the beginning there are so many threads none of them seeming to be connected.... but as Kate Morton begins to work the loom and weave the story together, a beautiful picture is formed... just remember when you pick this book up sometimes weaving takes some patients and effort, but the end result is so worth it!
A love story, a ghost story, a murder, a theft, a complex plot.... this book is crammed full of interesting characters with interesting lives and if I’m being completely honest sometimes we did not get to explore those lives as thoroughly as I would have liked.... The two constant characters in this book were unlikely, the house and the ghost... both were extremely engaging and intriguing, and both had a story of their own... and as the characters traveled in and out of this house through time we really saw them through the eyes of the House and the ghost... an extremely well done go story, it will make you a believer, it really was never over the top.... a perfect addition to an October read....
As much as I appreciated this book when I finished... I have to admit it was a little tough to get into in the beginning... there are a lot of characters and it seemed a little jarring and disjointed, but I had to trust... trust that Kate Morton would bring this all together and at about 30% she really did, The picture began to come together.... and at the end of the book it was quite an exquisite picture indeed!
Absolutely recommend to fans of this author and to those of you who have the patience and passion for a complex book that spans many lives and a century and a half ...
*** A huge thank you to Atria for my copy ***
Not my favorite Kate Morton, but it was just as beautiful as her books always are. It started off slow for me, but once I understood how the narrative format was working, it picked up. It reminded me in some ways of Atonement, which is my long-time favorite book.
This was slow to get started, and there were several little annoyances early on that kind of put me off (A professional researcher wondering about the origins of a children's story doesn't immediately Google it? And upon finding a mysterious framed photograph, her first instinct isn't to open the frame and see if there's anything written on the back?). I was also kind of unenthused about the idea of a literal ghost being one of the POV characters; the tone in her sections in particular felt a lot more artsy and philosophical than I remember this author's previous books being, and the whole conceit just leaned a lot closer to magical realism than I like. I guess it's fine if you're into that sort of thing; I'm just not, particularly.
Once the plot gets rolling though, it is fairly engaging, although the twists were decidedly easier for me to call ahead of time than in some of this author's prior works. I liked several of the characters very much, and was a bit disappointed that the only ones we return to more than once are the aforementioned ghost and Elodie in the modern day. This is a particular shame, because in spite of having more pages dedicated to her than to any other living POV character, her story seems to get the shortest shrift, and ends up feeling like little more than a framing device.
The whole structure felt similar to, but noticeably different from this author's previous books; having each character's sections cordoned off this way, rather than overlapping and jumping back and forth between POVs, honestly made the plot feel a little thinner to me. Certainly there were threads and significant details popping up in multiple places, but it felt more impressionistic, harping (a bit heavily at times) on themes, rather than the careful unraveling of an intricate, many-layered plot. Certainly worth the read, and I'd even say still better than your average fiction, but I've liked other offerings from this author better.
Once the plot gets rolling though, it is fairly engaging, although the twists were decidedly easier for me to call ahead of time than in some of this author's prior works. I liked several of the characters very much, and was a bit disappointed that the only ones we return to more than once are the aforementioned ghost and Elodie in the modern day. This is a particular shame, because in spite of having more pages dedicated to her than to any other living POV character, her story seems to get the shortest shrift, and ends up feeling like little more than a framing device.
The whole structure felt similar to, but noticeably different from this author's previous books; having each character's sections cordoned off this way, rather than overlapping and jumping back and forth between POVs, honestly made the plot feel a little thinner to me. Certainly there were threads and significant details popping up in multiple places, but it felt more impressionistic, harping (a bit heavily at times) on themes, rather than the careful unraveling of an intricate, many-layered plot. Certainly worth the read, and I'd even say still better than your average fiction, but I've liked other offerings from this author better.