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Kissing Tolstoy
by Penny Reid
2.25/5 stars.
I don't really do serials. I just don't enjoy the format.
But when I found out that this was now a book, I was excited to read it.
First off: If you want to buy this book, do it this month because then your money will go to charity - which is awesome.
The book itself... wasn't a complete book at all.
The build up is nice. However as a non-fan of Russian Literature it was at times quite boring to read. I also didn't really enjoy how a lot of the story was designed to just show off how smart they are. Or like the author did so much research that she wanted to stuff al the information in somehow. As someone who is from a non-native english speaking country, we were never forced to read these type of classics (as we have our own 'classics') and honestly, it was a little difficult to maintain my concentration at the stuffy parts.
But that is more a personal preference. The most annoying thing to me was that even though this is supposed to be a finished book. It's nowhere near complete.
It leaves gaping holes where his family is concerned. Where there is a lot of time for the built up.. you barely even see them together. The epilogue was not enough. I wanted to see his sister react, I wanted to know what the hell was going on with his father. etc etc.
The last 25% or something kind of ruined the rest of the book for me. It's still pretty much a novella, with a quicky ending en a lot of boring Russian literature talk in between.
This is my opinion and what troubled me, might not trouble you. The writing is perfectly fine.
Considering the next book is also going to be a serial, I think I'm going to tap out of this series.
I don't really do serials. I just don't enjoy the format.
But when I found out that this was now a book, I was excited to read it.
First off: If you want to buy this book, do it this month because then your money will go to charity - which is awesome.
The book itself... wasn't a complete book at all.
The build up is nice. However as a non-fan of Russian Literature it was at times quite boring to read. I also didn't really enjoy how a lot of the story was designed to just show off how smart they are. Or like the author did so much research that she wanted to stuff al the information in somehow. As someone who is from a non-native english speaking country, we were never forced to read these type of classics (as we have our own 'classics') and honestly, it was a little difficult to maintain my concentration at the stuffy parts.
But that is more a personal preference. The most annoying thing to me was that even though this is supposed to be a finished book. It's nowhere near complete.
It leaves gaping holes where his family is concerned. Where there is a lot of time for the built up.. you barely even see them together. The epilogue was not enough. I wanted to see his sister react, I wanted to know what the hell was going on with his father. etc etc.
The last 25% or something kind of ruined the rest of the book for me. It's still pretty much a novella, with a quicky ending en a lot of boring Russian literature talk in between.
This is my opinion and what troubled me, might not trouble you. The writing is perfectly fine.
Considering the next book is also going to be a serial, I think I'm going to tap out of this series.