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jdarnold 's review for:
The Fervor
by Alma Katsu
Telling the story of a Japanese woman and her half American daughter dragged off to the concentration camps in America during World War 2, it had too many storylines and too weird a plot for it to hang together for me. It tried to do too much and never quite succeeded for me.
There was also a story line of a newspaper writer who felt she was onto a story, a preacher who got involved in some "anti-Jap" crazies, balloons filled with magical spiders and a government plot to kill off the Japanese in the internment camps. Add in a little Japanese mythology and demons, some domestic heartbreak and you have a mish mash of stories that had me skimming the last 50 pages or so, as I didn't care about any of the characters. And I had such high hopes in the beginning... 2.5 stars rounded up to 3
There was also a story line of a newspaper writer who felt she was onto a story, a preacher who got involved in some "anti-Jap" crazies, balloons filled with magical spiders and a government plot to kill off the Japanese in the internment camps. Add in a little Japanese mythology and demons, some domestic heartbreak and you have a mish mash of stories that had me skimming the last 50 pages or so, as I didn't care about any of the characters. And I had such high hopes in the beginning... 2.5 stars rounded up to 3