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A review by debnanceatreaderbuzz
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
3.0
A beautiful cover...an intriguing
title...an interesting blurb on the back of the book....I've learned
that all of these can promote excessive expectations and lead to a
dire case of book disappointment. Sometimes I think I'd rather know
too little about a book and thus come to expect little.
I had high expectations for this book. If you go into reading it
without expecting "astonishing splashes of colour", if you begin
reading, thinking, perhaps, "nice and interesting splashes", I think
you might rate the book higher than I did when you finish. What I
liked best about this novel were the characters and the relationships
between them. It was a psychological study rather than a true plot
driven novel; I like that, too. It didn't sweep me away, but I was
happy to have read the book.
title...an interesting blurb on the back of the book....I've learned
that all of these can promote excessive expectations and lead to a
dire case of book disappointment. Sometimes I think I'd rather know
too little about a book and thus come to expect little.
I had high expectations for this book. If you go into reading it
without expecting "astonishing splashes of colour", if you begin
reading, thinking, perhaps, "nice and interesting splashes", I think
you might rate the book higher than I did when you finish. What I
liked best about this novel were the characters and the relationships
between them. It was a psychological study rather than a true plot
driven novel; I like that, too. It didn't sweep me away, but I was
happy to have read the book.