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A review by caillem
Click: One Novel, Ten Authors by David Almond
3.0
This book has been sitting on my shelf for years. I have decided to clean up my shelves, specifically those books that just sort of stay on the shelf and never get read because there are other books that I want to read more (we all have some of these). This was one of the books. I was really excited about this book when I first got it, and it lived up to that excitement... until the last too chapters.
I love the idea of short stories that are all connected to a central story, which is essentially what this is. The added twist of each chapter being written by a different author was also nice. You got variations in writing style, that allowed you to believe that each story was being told by a different person. I loved the first 8 chapters of the book. You were taken to different places and different times, but all of the stories were linked to Gee in some way. However when you get to the last 2 chapters, it crashes... HARD.
It's not that the stories of the last 2 chapters were bad, per say, they just did not explain enough, and made everything in the previous 8 chapters confusing. It left me thoroughly disappointed and wanting more of an ending.
I love the idea of short stories that are all connected to a central story, which is essentially what this is. The added twist of each chapter being written by a different author was also nice. You got variations in writing style, that allowed you to believe that each story was being told by a different person. I loved the first 8 chapters of the book. You were taken to different places and different times, but all of the stories were linked to Gee in some way. However when you get to the last 2 chapters, it crashes... HARD.
It's not that the stories of the last 2 chapters were bad, per say, they just did not explain enough, and made everything in the previous 8 chapters confusing. It left me thoroughly disappointed and wanting more of an ending.