lexyt2's review against another edition
4.0
This was a complex, slow-paced, and very interesting novel, combining the backstories of its characters almost as side studies, a little like reading a television series - Up the Downstairs Case or Downton Abbey. It's not meant to be a fast read. Although I did enjoy the characters' stories very much, I found myself forgetting where the actual main story was heading. There was a crime, yes. We're shown that right off the bat. But then there are all these people with various human problems and human elements to them that also deserve some pondering...
I wish I would have read it at a more quiet time when I could hold all the stories together in my head from reading to reading.
I'm looking forward to another one of Ceder's books, perhaps in the dead of winter when there's snow outside.
I wish I would have read it at a more quiet time when I could hold all the stories together in my head from reading to reading.
I'm looking forward to another one of Ceder's books, perhaps in the dead of winter when there's snow outside.
orlando55's review against another edition
4.0
This was a complex, slow-paced, and very interesting novel, combining the backstories of its characters almost as side studies, a little like reading a television series - Up the Downstairs Case or Downton Abbey. It's not meant to be a fast read. Although I did enjoy the characters' stories very much, I found myself forgetting where the actual main story was heading. There was a crime, yes. We're shown that right off the bat. But then there are all these people with various human problems and human elements to them that also deserve some pondering...
I wish I would have read it at a more quiet time when I could hold all the stories together in my head from reading to reading.
I'm looking forward to another one of Ceder's books, perhaps in the dead of winter when there's snow outside.
I wish I would have read it at a more quiet time when I could hold all the stories together in my head from reading to reading.
I'm looking forward to another one of Ceder's books, perhaps in the dead of winter when there's snow outside.
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