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A review by ethantw00
A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
4.0
7.5/10 = 4 Stars Rounded Up
The first 3/4 of this book were really quite strong. Engaging, funny, and intermittently stressful. A Children’s Bible also features really strong, likable characters to root for all the way to the end.
However, the final 1/4 of the book felt very rushed, with things just happening around the characters but never really felt like I was WITH the characters, as opposed to the rest of the book.
Also, while the cast of kids are definitely very entertaining and pretty easy to love, they, especially near the end, feel a bit too omniscient, which start to take me out of the story a it. I’ll also say I felt the book maybe played it a bit safe with the characters and their fates, but that could very well be my horror-craving side lashing out.
All-in-all, A Children’s Bible is a very engaging, succinct, and mostly smart read. The allusion to stories and events in the Bible were really fun and very felt like overkill.
In closing, it’s a good’un
The first 3/4 of this book were really quite strong. Engaging, funny, and intermittently stressful. A Children’s Bible also features really strong, likable characters to root for all the way to the end.
However, the final 1/4 of the book felt very rushed, with things just happening around the characters but never really felt like I was WITH the characters, as opposed to the rest of the book.
Also, while the cast of kids are definitely very entertaining and pretty easy to love, they, especially near the end, feel a bit too omniscient, which start to take me out of the story a it. I’ll also say I felt the book maybe played it a bit safe with the characters and their fates, but that could very well be my horror-craving side lashing out.
All-in-all, A Children’s Bible is a very engaging, succinct, and mostly smart read. The allusion to stories and events in the Bible were really fun and very felt like overkill.
In closing, it’s a good’un