sarahmcsarah 's review for:

The Port-Wine Stain by Norman Lock

2.0

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So, this guy is a really good writer. I underlined several passages because I thought they were beautiful. But, this reads like a children's historical fiction book with a few adult themes thrown in to age it up. The cause and effect in this book is kind of odd - one thing will happen, and the characters react in such an over the top way that I feel like I missed something. I feel like if this was longer, the secondary characters more developed to give the reader a better sense of context, and the author controlled himself better when it came to historical name dropping, this would have been better.