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A review by rose_reads33
Otto mesi a Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel
2.0
Did not finish. Gave up at 35%
This isn’t a bad book, it was wasn’t for me and I felt myself struggling through for what felt like hours getting nowhere.
Mantel’s writing style is overly descriptive, extremely heavy on the similes, old school classic writing that just turns my brain off. It’s obviously not bad, but I wanted some pizazz, something to draw me in and do something differently. I much prefer something overly wild and insane than something plain boring.
It’s not that there aren’t interesting conversations to be had about Saudi Arabia, it’s laws, customs, how women are treated. But the unlikeable characters weren’t having these conversations in a way that felt thought provoking. It wasn’t even that the characters were unlikeable actually, they were just flat and boring. It was clearly trying to build a mystery of some kind and I questioned if I cared enough to finish, but decided I didn’t. Too much realism to say anything interesting.
This isn’t a bad book, it was wasn’t for me and I felt myself struggling through for what felt like hours getting nowhere.
Mantel’s writing style is overly descriptive, extremely heavy on the similes, old school classic writing that just turns my brain off. It’s obviously not bad, but I wanted some pizazz, something to draw me in and do something differently. I much prefer something overly wild and insane than something plain boring.
It’s not that there aren’t interesting conversations to be had about Saudi Arabia, it’s laws, customs, how women are treated. But the unlikeable characters weren’t having these conversations in a way that felt thought provoking. It wasn’t even that the characters were unlikeable actually, they were just flat and boring. It was clearly trying to build a mystery of some kind and I questioned if I cared enough to finish, but decided I didn’t. Too much realism to say anything interesting.