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michelleheegaard's review against another edition
4.0
I bought this book ages ago and finally read it, when I decided to sit down and read all the books that I never read and were just collecting dust on my shelves.
It's good. It is really really good. I am kind of mad at myself for not reading this sooner. But then again... when I bought this book I had not wuite 'matured' into my 'I kind of like chrime novels' - fase, so I guess I just weren't ready for this book untill now.
I don't normally read a lot of books, where we as readers are introduced for the point of view of amost every character in the whole book. I kind of liked that Yorke did this in this book. It worked well.
One thing I can't seem to make my mind up about whether I like it or not, is the fact that Yorke was very blunt about her opinions of the system. I mean, authors ALWAYS have second agendas when reading a book. That is kind of the whole idea behind the written word - people always have second agendas and ecspecially authors. They want to tell you have they feel and how they think you should feel about a subject. And they do that through a story. Ofte you have to analysize your way to the true meaning of the meaning of the book. You did not have to do that with Yorke. Her opinions were badly consealed behind a characters opinion. You could easily see that it was the authors honest opinion shining through. I think I am going to have to go with an F on that scale. It did feel kind of amateurs-ish - which I know you can't excactly call Margaret Yorke. But other than that: great book. And I LOVED that little spin in the end. I had not seen that coming.
It's good. It is really really good. I am kind of mad at myself for not reading this sooner. But then again... when I bought this book I had not wuite 'matured' into my 'I kind of like chrime novels' - fase, so I guess I just weren't ready for this book untill now.
I don't normally read a lot of books, where we as readers are introduced for the point of view of amost every character in the whole book. I kind of liked that Yorke did this in this book. It worked well.
One thing I can't seem to make my mind up about whether I like it or not, is the fact that Yorke was very blunt about her opinions of the system. I mean, authors ALWAYS have second agendas when reading a book. That is kind of the whole idea behind the written word - people always have second agendas and ecspecially authors. They want to tell you have they feel and how they think you should feel about a subject. And they do that through a story. Ofte you have to analysize your way to the true meaning of the meaning of the book. You did not have to do that with Yorke. Her opinions were badly consealed behind a characters opinion. You could easily see that it was the authors honest opinion shining through. I think I am going to have to go with an F on that scale. It did feel kind of amateurs-ish - which I know you can't excactly call Margaret Yorke. But other than that: great book. And I LOVED that little spin in the end. I had not seen that coming.
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