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A review by sweetteaandfiction
The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
The writing was beautiful.
The storyline was engaging and well plotted.
The magical realism element of the sweet water fell completely flat.
The Listeners provided an exploration into how political hostages were being treated during World War II within the United States. The author used very true stories from prominent hotels throughout the United States to create a fictional world that felt more realistic than many memoirs of the time. The book dealt with class differences, political alliances, the divides within united fronts, and the things people would do for their countries.
If it were not for the (in my opinion) completely unnecessary addition of the sweet water, this could have easily been a five star read for me based on everything else that was done properly. The sweet water felt like a narrative tool to explain away how things were known by some and not others and how the hotel itself was a character instead of a backbone feature of the land and the people that come from it.
4 out of 5 children that fell in the well
The storyline was engaging and well plotted.
The magical realism element of the sweet water fell completely flat.
The Listeners provided an exploration into how political hostages were being treated during World War II within the United States. The author used very true stories from prominent hotels throughout the United States to create a fictional world that felt more realistic than many memoirs of the time. The book dealt with class differences, political alliances, the divides within united fronts, and the things people would do for their countries.
If it were not for the (in my opinion) completely unnecessary addition of the sweet water, this could have easily been a five star read for me based on everything else that was done properly. The sweet water felt like a narrative tool to explain away how things were known by some and not others and how the hotel itself was a character instead of a backbone feature of the land and the people that come from it.
4 out of 5 children that fell in the well