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sarahcoller 's review for:
The Museum of Extraordinary Things
by Alice Hoffman
I didn't enjoy this one very much---mainly because it was just so extremely boring. The set up took about 300 pages, leaving me with about 50 pages of an actual story that I breezed through in about 20 minutes. The way it was written is distracting: lots of jumping back and forth between narrators, first and third person narratives, and bouncing around the timeline.
The ending is obvious and anticlimactic. The parts I didn't guess very early on were not super exciting either. I'm not usually one for magical realism but I think a little more focus on the fantastical in this story would have made it much more palatable.
The one thing I did really enjoy about the story were all of the historical bits and references to my favorite time in history.
The ending is obvious and anticlimactic. The parts I didn't guess very early on were not super exciting either. I'm not usually one for magical realism but I think a little more focus on the fantastical in this story would have made it much more palatable.
The one thing I did really enjoy about the story were all of the historical bits and references to my favorite time in history.