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mollylazer 's review for:
Bridge of Clay
by Markus Zusak
Oh, this book. I made it through the whole thing, but...
This story could have easily been half the length of the 530-someodd pages it took to tell it and still have included the same information. The language is beautiful, but I struggled with the pacing and the structure. I found that, wherever I was in the book, I didn't care about one of the timelines--first the past storyline was more interesting than the present and then the present was more interesting than the past. It took an awfully long time to reveal information that would have been useful a good 300 pages before it was revealed, which made me feel like I had missed something important (the significance of a particular object, specifically) when really it had just not been explained yet. The constant going back and forth between timelines every 3-5 pages made it difficult to invest emotionally in either one. Ultimately, this is my least favorite of the 3 Zusak novels I've read, and I'm pretty disappointed.
This story could have easily been half the length of the 530-someodd pages it took to tell it and still have included the same information. The language is beautiful, but I struggled with the pacing and the structure. I found that, wherever I was in the book, I didn't care about one of the timelines--first the past storyline was more interesting than the present and then the present was more interesting than the past. It took an awfully long time to reveal information that would have been useful a good 300 pages before it was revealed, which made me feel like I had missed something important (the significance of a particular object, specifically) when really it had just not been explained yet. The constant going back and forth between timelines every 3-5 pages made it difficult to invest emotionally in either one. Ultimately, this is my least favorite of the 3 Zusak novels I've read, and I'm pretty disappointed.