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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-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
Missing the children & teenagers Cazalet already. This chronicle is set at the beginning of the war. It's a delight to read, light despite plenty of family troubles and portrays young thoughts so well.
Second reading, pure comfort. Very sorry for Hugh, Sybil and family. Louise infuriating but fits with her parents. Fascinating watching characters having read the future novels so know what they have in store. Straight onto the next chronicle again.
Second reading, pure comfort. Very sorry for Hugh, Sybil and family. Louise infuriating but fits with her parents. Fascinating watching characters having read the future novels so know what they have in store. Straight onto the next chronicle again.
Wonderful characterisation, and the voices of the children and young people are perfectly judged. Don't read this series for plot or action, but for the people that you will begin to feel you know.
Very much enjoying getting to know the Cazelets. This one is set in the early years of WW2 and the war is very much seen through the eyes of various members of the family. Clary has her own particular sadness to bear, Louise is trying to be an actress and the parents are showing us that parents are people too and fallible.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
funny
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-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
I’m loving the Cazalet Chronicles & absorbing the minutia of every day life of an ‘upper class’ family during WW2. This second book in the series Marking Time, though didn’t quite live up to the first for me. There is so much every day detail, even down to the mince for tea, that I did zone out a few times in the 600 pages. Still looking forward to number three though!
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes