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catzkc 's review for:
The Quality of Silence
by Rosamund Lupton
overall an entertaining read with a unique plot. However, I knocked off a couple of stars for a couple of reasons: (1) the writing can be a bit overwrought and overly dramatic at times, and sometimes the 10-year old girl sounds more like an adult (or at least a much older teenager); (2) I don't appreciate an author battering my brain with propaganda (even if I agree with their position), especially when it's done in such a brutal way (if animal cruelty bothers you, you may want to reconsider - it's not graphic, but for me, it doesn't need to be).
***very slight spoiler***
I'll also add - I felt like the whole part of the story where Yasmin is driving a huge eighteen-wheeler, in a snowstorm, on the ice road, with a huge load of a housing structure on the back trailer, with absolutely no training whatsoever (just a couple of hours observing another trucker) - completely, totally ABSURD! Yeah - she just climbs up behind the steering wheel and takes off down the road and over the mountains like it's not any different than driving her little Toyota back in Scotland!
And if that doesn't take the cake, she is dragging along her 10-year-old deaf daughter with her, and heading into a huge hurricane-force winds/avalanche inducing storm!
But, ya know, she an astrophysicist, so of course, totally relate-able and transferable skills!
***very slight spoiler***
I'll also add - I felt like the whole part of the story where Yasmin is driving a huge eighteen-wheeler, in a snowstorm, on the ice road, with a huge load of a housing structure on the back trailer, with absolutely no training whatsoever (just a couple of hours observing another trucker) - completely, totally ABSURD! Yeah - she just climbs up behind the steering wheel and takes off down the road and over the mountains like it's not any different than driving her little Toyota back in Scotland!
And if that doesn't take the cake, she is dragging along her 10-year-old deaf daughter with her, and heading into a huge hurricane-force winds/avalanche inducing storm!
But, ya know, she an astrophysicist, so of course, totally relate-able and transferable skills!