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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
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:
Yes
This book was very hard to follow along with and boring most the time
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really struggled with this book. It took me a while to get into it and even then it was tough - there was just too much information. Too much Egyptology, quantum physics and death - I cared about the characters and their stories but not everything else. It was obviously very well researched and well written but it is not what I would have expected from a Jodi Picoult book.
Book of two ways
Let me be honest this book is messy. It’s a captivating mess of a story about the complexities of love, of dying, of motherhood, of marriage and of paths taken and pasts never forgotten. It’s detailed Egyptology is a character in itself that is both fascinating and at times overbearing. I wanted the end to crescendo but to to me the story, like dust, sort of just settles down. It’s not swept away and polished into a perfect ending but then again many of her books end this way, open and still full of possibility, so I’m not that surprised. I could see myself coming back to this one like I did the storyteller because I know I would find things I missed in a second reading.
Let me be honest this book is messy. It’s a captivating mess of a story about the complexities of love, of dying, of motherhood, of marriage and of paths taken and pasts never forgotten. It’s detailed Egyptology is a character in itself that is both fascinating and at times overbearing. I wanted the end to crescendo but to to me the story, like dust, sort of just settles down. It’s not swept away and polished into a perfect ending but then again many of her books end this way, open and still full of possibility, so I’m not that surprised. I could see myself coming back to this one like I did the storyteller because I know I would find things I missed in a second reading.
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
The concept was very cool but it was cluttered by so many complicated facts/terms it was hard to get into
As usual, this book is nothing like anything Picoult has written before. I love that about her.
This book, though! This books draws on my life-long fascination with all things Egypt.
Add to it a near-death experience, a secret past, and true love.
Timeless book. Read it.
This book, though! This books draws on my life-long fascination with all things Egypt.
Add to it a near-death experience, a secret past, and true love.
Timeless book. Read it.