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bookstorian 's review for:
The City of Woven Streets
by Emmi Itäranta
I was really looking forward to reading this novel as it is by a Finnish author and it was the first read I have participated in with my book club for a few months. I was also glad that I found it at my local library. With this being said, I'm still unsure about my exact feelings surrounding this novel. At first I found this novel difficult to sink my teeth in to as it was hard to embrace and imagine the fantasy world that the author was trying to create. I really didn't pick just how much fantasy would be involved in the story. To be honest I thought it would be more historical fiction so I struggled with the fantasy off and on throughout the novel but was able to perceiver as I wanted to know what would happen to the characters and through all the pieces would come in to place eventually.
In relation to the story, the complication was introduced early and kept me interested, I always say I love a short, sweet and to the point read and this was one. I liked the characters that were created and developed however I felt like the story ended with little closure for all of the characters except Eliana.
I think the biggest theme and message that this novel carried was the issues faced by displaced people and those who displace them and the inevitable that consumes their lives.
At times I loved the phrases and use of figurative language. In particular there were some very moving quotes towards the end of the novel which rang true to real life. The last paragraph in particular stood out for me "For our hours are brief and our days are brittle, and the marks our hands leave on the world belong to us and yet are beyond our own limits" (pg320).
In relation to the story, the complication was introduced early and kept me interested, I always say I love a short, sweet and to the point read and this was one. I liked the characters that were created and developed however I felt like the story ended with little closure for all of the characters except Eliana.
I think the biggest theme and message that this novel carried was the issues faced by displaced people and those who displace them and the inevitable that consumes their lives.
At times I loved the phrases and use of figurative language. In particular there were some very moving quotes towards the end of the novel which rang true to real life. The last paragraph in particular stood out for me "For our hours are brief and our days are brittle, and the marks our hands leave on the world belong to us and yet are beyond our own limits" (pg320).