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sbones 's review for:
The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
I did like this book and the poetic writing of it is beautiful. But its not a page turner and it meanders along like a slow river. Gathering small bits of random treasures along the way. In essence the book is about human relationships and what different things are felt and perceived by different people. I think for me the reason for the three stars is that I didn’t really warm to any of the characters and so i felt like i was just reading an essay of their lives, thats not to say that the observations of human fragility isn’t done well because it is but there just wasn’t much plot to it and so this was driven by characters who didn’t really do much other than exist which isn’t to say wasn’t interesting because it was, it was just that the synopsis promised so much more and i felt that it didn’t deliver on the Essex Serpent side of the title which was a side story in the end for me. I think it would be hard for me to sum this up and so I’m not going to, as like life you have to just pick this book up and see what unfolds along the way.