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magialuna 's review for:
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton
This definitely took me a while to get into it because the style of writing is very unusual. But once I got into it, I found myself growing more and more curious what on earth was going on... there was a real mystery and it was very complex.
How on earth this woman wrote this book I will never know. I do know she must be incredibly organized and detail oriented because ... wow. There is so much detail and it goes backwards and forwards in time and somehow she always keeps hold of her facts and things totally make sense in the end. It ALL fits together. And I'm not talking like this book is a 50 piece puzzle... this is one of those monster puzzles where they take a couple of 20000 piece puzzles out of the box and mix them together and don't let you look at the box to put it together of complexity kind of puzzle, puzzle. And still... it all fits together. Every nice little piece in place. I am glad I finished it just because I can sit here astonished at her feat of writing, honestly. The story was interesting, and the way it was told was very unusual but I feel like after reading that book I just watched an author who was performing for the Cirque du Soleil without the net. It was pretty impressive.
Definitely recommend it if you like historical novels, mysteries and unusual books that challenge you a bit. This is NOT an easy, sit back and take a bath mystery novel. It does require you to pay a bit of attention and follow the rather roaming narrative. You do get rewarded for this though...
How on earth this woman wrote this book I will never know. I do know she must be incredibly organized and detail oriented because ... wow. There is so much detail and it goes backwards and forwards in time and somehow she always keeps hold of her facts and things totally make sense in the end. It ALL fits together. And I'm not talking like this book is a 50 piece puzzle... this is one of those monster puzzles where they take a couple of 20000 piece puzzles out of the box and mix them together and don't let you look at the box to put it together of complexity kind of puzzle, puzzle. And still... it all fits together. Every nice little piece in place. I am glad I finished it just because I can sit here astonished at her feat of writing, honestly. The story was interesting, and the way it was told was very unusual but I feel like after reading that book I just watched an author who was performing for the Cirque du Soleil without the net. It was pretty impressive.
Definitely recommend it if you like historical novels, mysteries and unusual books that challenge you a bit. This is NOT an easy, sit back and take a bath mystery novel. It does require you to pay a bit of attention and follow the rather roaming narrative. You do get rewarded for this though...