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A review by hopebrasfield
The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
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I chose this because of the narrator, I will read pretty much anything Robin Miles narrates. (I guess I trust her judgment in addition to loving her narration style, but I also have no clue how that all works so maybe I'm due to get a dud at some point! Unsure!)
Great book if you're into time-expansive, multi-character books. I also felt like I got a good picture of what building the canal entailed--not in a "use this instead of historical docs" kind of way, but in a "use this to get a better picture in your mind of all the sorts of lives involved in the building of the canal" sort of way.
Memorable quotes:
"Perhaps the problem, he thought, was that a person needed faith to be able to see things that did not exist, to imagine a world not yet made."
"There were times she longed to be different, but she guessed everyone felt that way at one time or another. And so in wanting to be different, everyone was the same."
***
I chose this because of the narrator, I will read pretty much anything Robin Miles narrates. (I guess I trust her judgment in addition to loving her narration style, but I also have no clue how that all works so maybe I'm due to get a dud at some point! Unsure!)
Great book if you're into time-expansive, multi-character books. I also felt like I got a good picture of what building the canal entailed--not in a "use this instead of historical docs" kind of way, but in a "use this to get a better picture in your mind of all the sorts of lives involved in the building of the canal" sort of way.
Memorable quotes:
"Perhaps the problem, he thought, was that a person needed faith to be able to see things that did not exist, to imagine a world not yet made."
"There were times she longed to be different, but she guessed everyone felt that way at one time or another. And so in wanting to be different, everyone was the same."