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Bridge of Clay
by Markus Zusak
BOOK REVIEW - Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
Synopsis - The Dunbar boys are notorious around their Australian community. After their mom dies and their dad leaves, the 5 brothers are left to keep each other together. All very different, they experience loss and life in ways they can’t always relate to but when their dad returns their brotherly bond is tested once again.
Review - Are you into bridge building? Are you into horse racing? Are you into symbolic nicknames? Are you into metaphors at every turn? Then have I got the book for you! Bridge of Clay was a book that I could have put down and never picked back up and would not have thought about those Dunbar boys again for the rest of time.
Told in the past and present, the present storyline was really hard for me to power through. I much preferred the past storyline and the character’s backstories. I had very little connection to the Dunbar boys. The last 50 pages were actually kind of good but it’s a 500+ page book.
For me, this book was trying WAY to hard to be another masterpiece in the vein of The Book Thief (which is AMAZING) but it totally fell flat. It was written so choppy, everything was symbolic or a metaphor. The book alludes to events that we haven’t gotten to yet and it took so long that I eventually lost the minimal interest that I had. I wouldn’t call it a slow burn because I didn’t experience much burn. I wish I could build a bridge to the past and pick different book to read. ⭐️⭐️💫
Synopsis - The Dunbar boys are notorious around their Australian community. After their mom dies and their dad leaves, the 5 brothers are left to keep each other together. All very different, they experience loss and life in ways they can’t always relate to but when their dad returns their brotherly bond is tested once again.
Review - Are you into bridge building? Are you into horse racing? Are you into symbolic nicknames? Are you into metaphors at every turn? Then have I got the book for you! Bridge of Clay was a book that I could have put down and never picked back up and would not have thought about those Dunbar boys again for the rest of time.
Told in the past and present, the present storyline was really hard for me to power through. I much preferred the past storyline and the character’s backstories. I had very little connection to the Dunbar boys. The last 50 pages were actually kind of good but it’s a 500+ page book.
For me, this book was trying WAY to hard to be another masterpiece in the vein of The Book Thief (which is AMAZING) but it totally fell flat. It was written so choppy, everything was symbolic or a metaphor. The book alludes to events that we haven’t gotten to yet and it took so long that I eventually lost the minimal interest that I had. I wouldn’t call it a slow burn because I didn’t experience much burn. I wish I could build a bridge to the past and pick different book to read. ⭐️⭐️💫