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A review by apageofwordsandwishes
The Island by Victoria Hislop
3.0
I have really mixed feelings about this book. I read it as a teen and had a vague memory of being really intrigued by the Island of Spinalonga and the leper colony.
Kind of wish I had left it at that as the re read wasn’t as enjoyable. I didn’t get on with the writing style and was left feeling a bit baffled by some of the authors choices. She obviously spent a lot of time researching and building up some of these characters who are then killed off in a sentence and never mentioned again, yet a minor character who is only in a couple of scenes has a big detailed death with funeral and mourning all described.
It’s a good story but I can’t really say more than that.
Kind of wish I had left it at that as the re read wasn’t as enjoyable. I didn’t get on with the writing style and was left feeling a bit baffled by some of the authors choices. She obviously spent a lot of time researching and building up some of these characters who are then killed off in a sentence and never mentioned again, yet a minor character who is only in a couple of scenes has a big detailed death with funeral and mourning all described.
It’s a good story but I can’t really say more than that.