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A review by alyram4
The Spy with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
3.0
3/5 stars
Historical fiction for me is tricky, but reading this right after a book I loved (also historical fiction) I just didn't find myself interested. I got bored A LOT, so much that I felt lile stopping at points or skimming pages. There were times where I was actually really interested, but they werw few and far between. Beginning was unbearably slow where I nearly DNFd it 70 pages in. The ending was nice and tied it to a nice bow, leaving it open for interpretation. But yeah, this definitely wasn't for me. I couldn't care much about what happened to the characters. Even the magic aspect just felt lile ot could have been expanded on a bit more or even shown more. This is not magical realism at all, so reading this made me feel like there was so much missing. Anyways, this wasn't for me but I know many people enjoyed it. I'd pass on any others in this particular series for the time being.
Historical fiction for me is tricky, but reading this right after a book I loved (also historical fiction) I just didn't find myself interested. I got bored A LOT, so much that I felt lile stopping at points or skimming pages. There were times where I was actually really interested, but they werw few and far between. Beginning was unbearably slow where I nearly DNFd it 70 pages in. The ending was nice and tied it to a nice bow, leaving it open for interpretation. But yeah, this definitely wasn't for me. I couldn't care much about what happened to the characters. Even the magic aspect just felt lile ot could have been expanded on a bit more or even shown more. This is not magical realism at all, so reading this made me feel like there was so much missing. Anyways, this wasn't for me but I know many people enjoyed it. I'd pass on any others in this particular series for the time being.