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Bridge of Clay
by Markus Zusak
Ladies and gentlemen, I finally finished reading this book. The review will be up tomorrow since I need some time to digest the whole story lol.
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It took me 235 days to finish this book. And I'm the girl who finished the whole Shadowhunter Chronicles in just 2 months. When I was reading this book, I thought a lot about how I would review this book because I had so much mixed feelings about this book. The story was really good and I cared a lot about the characters (it took me reading half of the book to finally recognize who's who but still); I cried and laughed and cried and laughed again with the characters and in my book, that's a really good story. On another note, I also couldn't wait to finish reading the book. It felt like Zusak was really dragging the whole story. But that was on purpose, wasn't it?
Zusak's storytelling is something else. I was first introduced to his writing in The Book Thief and I really could see the similarity of his storytelling in that book and this book in the detailed imagery and the metaphors used. Since he used a lot of metaphors but at the same time told the story with the full details, every sentence produced was so beautiful but that also made his storytelling very complex. And since the storytelling is complex with the metaphors and details, we the readers need to really concentrate while reading this book. I never realized how unconcentrated I actually am when I read until I read this book.
This story wasn't really a plot-driven story, in which it doesn't have one plot it centres around and I found my mind wandering a lot. It's very character-driven and since everyone has their own story, it made this book stories within stories. Every story told definitely made me know the characters better and love them more and more with time. Zusak painted his characters so beautifully and made me feel everything that each of the characters felt. Usually, I love character-driven stories more than anything and with the beautiful, beautiful characters, nothing could've gone wrong, but every chapter took forever to end because of the storytelling and because I'm easily distracted it took longer for me to finish a chapter. Only by the last quarter of the book that I managed to see that Zusak's 'dragging' the story was necessary to make the story and the characters as beautiful as they were and really appreciate his storytelling.
I can see why this book got mixed reviews since I also had mixed feelings initially, but also grateful that I finished the book to see if the time I took to read this was worth it.
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It took me 235 days to finish this book. And I'm the girl who finished the whole Shadowhunter Chronicles in just 2 months. When I was reading this book, I thought a lot about how I would review this book because I had so much mixed feelings about this book. The story was really good and I cared a lot about the characters (it took me reading half of the book to finally recognize who's who but still); I cried and laughed and cried and laughed again with the characters and in my book, that's a really good story. On another note, I also couldn't wait to finish reading the book. It felt like Zusak was really dragging the whole story. But that was on purpose, wasn't it?
Zusak's storytelling is something else. I was first introduced to his writing in The Book Thief and I really could see the similarity of his storytelling in that book and this book in the detailed imagery and the metaphors used. Since he used a lot of metaphors but at the same time told the story with the full details, every sentence produced was so beautiful but that also made his storytelling very complex. And since the storytelling is complex with the metaphors and details, we the readers need to really concentrate while reading this book. I never realized how unconcentrated I actually am when I read until I read this book.
This story wasn't really a plot-driven story, in which it doesn't have one plot it centres around and I found my mind wandering a lot. It's very character-driven and since everyone has their own story, it made this book stories within stories. Every story told definitely made me know the characters better and love them more and more with time. Zusak painted his characters so beautifully and made me feel everything that each of the characters felt. Usually, I love character-driven stories more than anything and with the beautiful, beautiful characters, nothing could've gone wrong, but every chapter took forever to end because of the storytelling and because I'm easily distracted it took longer for me to finish a chapter. Only by the last quarter of the book that I managed to see that Zusak's 'dragging' the story was necessary to make the story and the characters as beautiful as they were and really appreciate his storytelling.
I can see why this book got mixed reviews since I also had mixed feelings initially, but also grateful that I finished the book to see if the time I took to read this was worth it.