A review by tessyohnka
Zorrie by Laird Hunt

hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This is an intimate portrayal of a simple life with a reassuring sense of the rhythms of life and I don't intend the rest of this 'review' to seem unkind. As I thought about what I would write here, I kept thinking of something crazy my brother had said years and years ago about song lyrics -- how if you changed the first lyric there would be no song. He used a song by We Five "Well, I woke up this mornin' You were on my mind." He said there wouldn't be a song if you said "Well, I woke up this mornin' but I went back to sleep." It's a silly thought, we were both teenagers, but it's a little bit like the way I felt reading this book. I kept racing ahead mentally thinking something remarkable was going to happen, but it didn't, or it did in a way that didn't seem remarkable.