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babsy_burns 's review for:
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a good entry to the "Australian Gothic" canon. The mystery itself is unexciting for the latter-half of the book; where you're left with uninteresting characters following the aftermath of three school girls and their teacher lost on Hanging Rock.
The suspense builds throughout the picnic scenes as the girls scale the mountain and eventhough we know the outcome, it never snapped me out of the gravity of the climb.
Joan's strength is keeping the spirit of the missing alive throughout the novel and escalating the tension between characters confusion, fear and frustration. But her weakness is that the story does feel empty and incomplete.
The suspense builds throughout the picnic scenes as the girls scale the mountain and eventhough we know the outcome, it never snapped me out of the gravity of the climb.
Joan's strength is keeping the spirit of the missing alive throughout the novel and escalating the tension between characters confusion, fear and frustration. But her weakness is that the story does feel empty and incomplete.