cooeeaus 's review for:

Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

3.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The novel includes a lot of long descriptive passages, long narrative passages that I found were sometimes hampering to reading. I found I skimmed over a lot of these.  There were also many speculative passages with ghostly figures and visions, at time nonsensical to me, sometimes hampered my reading.  
I had to re-read passages over to be able to understand the text, which slowed my reading enjoyment and I actually had to read the last few pages of the book before I came to a realisation of the ending of the novel, which ended sadly and abruptly, too abruptly for my liking.
Overall there was a lot to like about this novel but it also had it's flaws.