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A review by kerveros
The Dark Circle by Linda Grant
1.0
I finished this book over two hours ago and have spent a lot of the time since wondering what it is about this book that I am missing. I mean... I must be missing something given this book was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. But I think I just have to accept that this book was just not my cup of tea.
I guess you could say that this is a book about doing the wrong things for what you think are the right reasons. Either that or it was a book about two pathetic, ignorant, ungrateful, unlikable individuals who I would like to say deserved everything they got except the one got too much and the other not nearly enough. There were some side characters in here who seemed to exist to move the plot along as opposed to being what I would consider fully realised. That said, there were some interesting stories in here - Hannah for example - and it is a shame that the book instead focuses on two ingrates instead.
It is a real shame that I didn't take to this, as I thought the idea was interesting. TB is something people have heard of, yet despite its continuing existence, not many people know much about it these days. The idea of a group of people learning to live, or should I say choosing to live, with TB, how they could group together and rally against the institution that is trying to help them, is different. But I have always said that I need either likable characters or a plot that grips me and I didn't get either from this.
I guess you could say that this is a book about doing the wrong things for what you think are the right reasons. Either that or it was a book about two pathetic, ignorant, ungrateful, unlikable individuals who I would like to say deserved everything they got except the one got too much and the other not nearly enough. There were some side characters in here who seemed to exist to move the plot along as opposed to being what I would consider fully realised. That said, there were some interesting stories in here - Hannah for example - and it is a shame that the book instead focuses on two ingrates instead.
It is a real shame that I didn't take to this, as I thought the idea was interesting. TB is something people have heard of, yet despite its continuing existence, not many people know much about it these days. The idea of a group of people learning to live, or should I say choosing to live, with TB, how they could group together and rally against the institution that is trying to help them, is different. But I have always said that I need either likable characters or a plot that grips me and I didn't get either from this.