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A review by gerbilreads
Cwen by Alice Albinia
4.0
Powerful, potent and inspiring. I liked the characters and LOVED the unique style of writing, part-vignette, part-trial dialogue. Gave the book great pace.
Only thing that stopped it being a 5* for me is that I felt this building argument, a rising crescendo of meaning which led to… the end. I feel there’s another step it should have taken for me that would have drawn everything together better and my expectation of that not being fulfilled left me a bit flat at the end.
Saying that, this is a fabulous book that I have not resisted recommending widely!
Only thing that stopped it being a 5* for me is that I felt this building argument, a rising crescendo of meaning which led to… the end. I feel there’s another step it should have taken for me that would have drawn everything together better and my expectation of that not being fulfilled left me a bit flat at the end.
Saying that, this is a fabulous book that I have not resisted recommending widely!