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3.08 AVERAGE
3.08 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book has an improbable premise and is just a bit too pedestrian for me. I'm sad to say it, but I feel like this might be the last Allende book I read - there is none of the magic here of her earlier books. It gets 3 stars only because the pace picks up once the plot turns a corner, but it takes far too long to get there.
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Dnf'd at pg. 150. This book was so boring, and I feel like nothing remotely interesting happened in the 150 pages I read. Ripper was nothing about murder, and the only mystery is why anyone would finish this book!!!!!
Audiobook narration was decent, except for toward the end where the captor is talking--there's not much separation from other scenes. Overall, though, this book was tedious. Background information was too much, and then it was repeated from another character's point of view. I figured out the ending with about 4 hours remaining. The book should have been about half as long as it was. This was my first Allende, and it will likely be my last.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
It was just difficult to read for weird reasons. It had a lot of misogyny, sexually explicit language, and just odd choices of words. I just found myself not enjoying the book.
30 pages in and I cannot read any further. It is with great sadness that I have to abandon this book so early on after having looked forward to reading it this weekend. The main reason is probably my being so used to Allende's previous works that her first foray into the mystery/thriller genre just does not appeal to me after all. From the first, the writing felt flat, distant, and choppy, making me wonder who actually wrote this and why. To be fair, I should probably read at least half of the book before giving an opinion but I'm just too disappointed to spend any more time on Ripper.