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A review by mistressmess
Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge
2.0
I picked up this book because I have for a while have had a kind of morbid fascination with the Parker-Hulme murder case. The author loosely based this book of the newspaper articles she read on the murder after it first happened. Naturally I was very eager to read this book, but it just did not live up to my expectations.
In this books defense the writing was very good. I flowed well and created powerful images that could occasionally make you uncomfortable and tense. But unfortunately that is the only good thing I can say about this book.
This has to be the slowest 150 page book I've ever read. Half the time it didn't even make any sense. The protagonist just went on and on about things that were irrelevant. It was impossible to connect with her or an of the other characters for that matter.
The plot was SO repetitive. I thought that a book this short couldn't repeat itself too much, but this book was basically just one thing over and over again until it reached it's climax; which was not even very climactic.
So yes this book was basically just one big fat disappointment. What a shame.
In this books defense the writing was very good. I flowed well and created powerful images that could occasionally make you uncomfortable and tense. But unfortunately that is the only good thing I can say about this book.
This has to be the slowest 150 page book I've ever read. Half the time it didn't even make any sense. The protagonist just went on and on about things that were irrelevant. It was impossible to connect with her or an of the other characters for that matter.
The plot was SO repetitive. I thought that a book this short couldn't repeat itself too much, but this book was basically just one thing over and over again until it reached it's climax; which was not even very climactic.
So yes this book was basically just one big fat disappointment. What a shame.