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mady2518 's review for:
All Our Shimmering Skies
by Trent Dalton
The premise of this book is fantastic; a heartfelt exploration of trauma, loss and love set against the backdrop of World War II in Darwin.
This could have been an interesting read with some poignant moments, if it had been told in about 200 pages. Unfortunately, Dalton spends too much time waxing poetic for there to be any real plot developments. I think, though, this is just Dalton’s style, as I had the same issues in Boy Swallows Universe.
“And she thinks about the life she could have had if she'd known how to move through this complex earth the way water always knows how to move through it.”
This could have been an interesting read with some poignant moments, if it had been told in about 200 pages. Unfortunately, Dalton spends too much time waxing poetic for there to be any real plot developments. I think, though, this is just Dalton’s style, as I had the same issues in Boy Swallows Universe.
“And she thinks about the life she could have had if she'd known how to move through this complex earth the way water always knows how to move through it.”