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cheekylaydee 's review for:
They Are Trying to Break Your Heart
by David Savill
This book reads like one that is meant to be saying something very profound and meaningful about life. About how people can be brought together and torn apart by love, war and natural disasters, and how war can change people until they're unrecognisable to those that love them. I'm sure there are going to be plenty of people out there that will rave about this book and how much it has to say about the politics of the Bosnian war etc etc.....but I'm not one of them.
The first thing I noticed was the seemingly deliberate misuse of proper nouns for character's names. A lot of the characters didn't have a capital letter for their name and that irritated me. It made it seem that some characters were more important than others, and maybe being a female reader it would be natural for me to feel that a lot of the female characters were not graced with the honour of a capital letter. Maybe that's me reading too much into things who knows?
Although all the characters are connected in some way I did feel that the jumping from scene to scene, character to character made it all a bit disjointed. The connections between the characters were flimsy and there were times when I wasn't sure what year it was supposed to be or what context it was in.
I've given the book 3 out of 5 stars because despite the grammatical errors it was written well, I learnt some things about the Bosnian war, and I managed to see it through to the end. However, it did take me a week to read, which is a long time for me, because it simply didn't capture my imagination or absorb my attention in the way that a really good book usually does. I don't even know if any of my reader friends will be interested either. This was a book that made me feel like finishing it was an accomplishment. A chore. Next, please!
The first thing I noticed was the seemingly deliberate misuse of proper nouns for character's names. A lot of the characters didn't have a capital letter for their name and that irritated me. It made it seem that some characters were more important than others, and maybe being a female reader it would be natural for me to feel that a lot of the female characters were not graced with the honour of a capital letter. Maybe that's me reading too much into things who knows?
Although all the characters are connected in some way I did feel that the jumping from scene to scene, character to character made it all a bit disjointed. The connections between the characters were flimsy and there were times when I wasn't sure what year it was supposed to be or what context it was in.
I've given the book 3 out of 5 stars because despite the grammatical errors it was written well, I learnt some things about the Bosnian war, and I managed to see it through to the end. However, it did take me a week to read, which is a long time for me, because it simply didn't capture my imagination or absorb my attention in the way that a really good book usually does. I don't even know if any of my reader friends will be interested either. This was a book that made me feel like finishing it was an accomplishment. A chore. Next, please!