holley_cornetto 's review for:

March by Geraldine Brooks

3.0

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I'm torn about this book. I think that Brooks is a very good writer with a wonderful talent for prose. Year of Wonders (also by Brooks) is one of my favorite books. I found myself wishing that I could like Mr. March more. He didn't seem like a real person to me, but a platform from which to preach at the reader. Mr. March wants to be a martyr. I'm not sure how much of this is very convincing writing on the part of Brooks, and how much of it is using literature to push a social agenda. In all fairness, Little Women is guilty of the same thing, so perhaps Brooks did this on purpose. My favorite parts of the book were the parts from Mrs. March's perspective. She seemed like a real person to me, whereas Mr. March seemed like an caricature.