zarasecker23 's review for:

The Woman Behind The Waterfall by Leonora Meriel

2.0

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The artwork on the cover of this book is really pretty and entices its readers to explore further. The pages of the book have a nice feel to them and the font used also plays into the readers’ desire to read the story. I started reading and found I enjoyed it the story, a story that spanned three generations - grandmother, mother and daughter/granddaughter. It started like any other story and then the second chapter introduces the daughter’s (Angela) Nightspirit which sounds like a bird and this is where it becomes confusing. I persevered for as long as I could stand to but I found that the further in I got the more confused I became. The confusion came about because there would be a story about Angela talking to her mother (who seemed to be perpetually depressed) and then the next thing the reader knows Angela seems to have become a bird looking after her own brood of children. From this change we then go back to Angela being a normal human girl. This changing from human to bird wasn’t as seamless as it possibly could be so the end effect jarred. In spite of the difficulties I encountered with this book I would be willing to read more books by this author.