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iliveinfairytales 's review for:
Little Bird
by Tiffany Meuret
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Little Bird stuck out to me with the cover design. It’s intriguing and beautiful. The book is quite mysterious as you get into the story of Josie and her intentionally curated lonely life. A mysterious sentient being appears and begins to, what Josie would consider, harass her in her own yard. What is this thing/who is this thing? From here weaves the story of Skelly and Josie and Skelly’s attempts at getting Josie to understand what’s really going on.
This book was interesting. I had a hard time getting into it as I didn’t quite understand what was going on. Josie was pretty intolerable a character. Written that way on purpose I’m sure, but difficult to want to read about her. The mystery in it all was intentional but sometimes it was a bit too vague. I wanted to read and know what Skelly really was about and the intention behind her presence. That’s the idea, of course, of the book, to keep reading and slowly understand more as you go. But I found myself a bit more confused as I read more. The premise and the idea of the story is very original and interesting. In the end you do understand sort of what Skelly’s intentions are. But to me I feel like there needed to be a bit more of an explanation of what she was and what was going to happen to Josie. The idea was there but the execution, to me, of the story line could have been a bit better. The story and book have a lot of potential I think. And again, it’s an original idea and something I’ve never read before. The other side character’s presence was only half explained it seems. And I needed to know more about that. There are times when you have to draw your own conclusions in a lot of reading and some things are open to interpretation. But in this one I needed more explained to be able to truly understand.
The idea has the potential to be a lot more than it currently is. There’s something here but it’s just not quite strong enough a story for me to have followed and fully understood.
This book was interesting. I had a hard time getting into it as I didn’t quite understand what was going on. Josie was pretty intolerable a character. Written that way on purpose I’m sure, but difficult to want to read about her. The mystery in it all was intentional but sometimes it was a bit too vague. I wanted to read and know what Skelly really was about and the intention behind her presence. That’s the idea, of course, of the book, to keep reading and slowly understand more as you go. But I found myself a bit more confused as I read more. The premise and the idea of the story is very original and interesting. In the end you do understand sort of what Skelly’s intentions are. But to me I feel like there needed to be a bit more of an explanation of what she was and what was going to happen to Josie. The idea was there but the execution, to me, of the story line could have been a bit better. The story and book have a lot of potential I think. And again, it’s an original idea and something I’ve never read before. The other side character’s presence was only half explained it seems. And I needed to know more about that. There are times when you have to draw your own conclusions in a lot of reading and some things are open to interpretation. But in this one I needed more explained to be able to truly understand.
The idea has the potential to be a lot more than it currently is. There’s something here but it’s just not quite strong enough a story for me to have followed and fully understood.