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The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores by Diana Marcum
2.0
This could’ve been a great book, but the structure is absolutely terrible. It’s incredibly difficult to follow her writing. I felt like she was jumping around constantly, and there was no flow to it whatsoever. It’s hard to get into the book or her story.
Even more importantly to me, this wasn’t the book I felt like I was billed. The Azores were barely even a setting. I don’t really feel like I took away anything from this book about the islands.
Even more importantly to me, this wasn’t the book I felt like I was billed. The Azores were barely even a setting. I don’t really feel like I took away anything from this book about the islands.
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James
2.0
Everything about this book was great except for the writing, tone, editing, structure, research, and content. That is to say this is a great premise, and in the hands of an actual historian, writer, and editor it would be a great book.
As it stands, “a set of wild conclusions based on my own wild assumptions based on things I assume happen based on evidence I think could have hypothetically existed” would be a great subtitle for this book. It’s fun! At times I even enjoyed it, but it’s as much fiction as any book written by Tolkien.
As it stands, “a set of wild conclusions based on my own wild assumptions based on things I assume happen based on evidence I think could have hypothetically existed” would be a great subtitle for this book. It’s fun! At times I even enjoyed it, but it’s as much fiction as any book written by Tolkien.