Scan barcode
A review by booking_along
A Dark Night's Work by Elizabeth Gaskell
2.0
i can’t say that i enjoyed this story overall.
i liked the idea of this father that dots on his only child after losing everyone else but at the same time not really knowing how to behave around the child.
but for me some sections of the story progressed too fast, sometimes from one paragraph to the next years had passed without much explanation or reason other then to move the story forward which i thought was done a bit too blund.
but other sections just seemed to go on endlessly without any real reason either.
i do like gaskell‘s writing but this story wasn’t her best work, for me at least and i think with her i just need more story, pages and development equally spread through the book.
i liked the idea of this father that dots on his only child after losing everyone else but at the same time not really knowing how to behave around the child.
but for me some sections of the story progressed too fast, sometimes from one paragraph to the next years had passed without much explanation or reason other then to move the story forward which i thought was done a bit too blund.
but other sections just seemed to go on endlessly without any real reason either.
i do like gaskell‘s writing but this story wasn’t her best work, for me at least and i think with her i just need more story, pages and development equally spread through the book.