A review by bookbirder
Great House by Nicole Krauss
3.0
This is one of those books that I automatically want to give 4 or 5 stars because it was well written and seemed super deep with a complex plot, but in reality it was so deep that I left feeling unsatisfactorily confused and thinking a little too much.
It was intriguing to have the short stories from different perspectives, times, and locations that all tied in with each other, but for the conclusion didn’t bring everything together to the extent that I had hoped. In fact, there is one story that I have no idea how it relates to the rest of them, and for many I know that they relate but I don’t know exactly how.
I will probably try reading it again at some point now that I know the characters names, and in the meantime will stew over it hoping the dots will suddenly connect.
It was intriguing to have the short stories from different perspectives, times, and locations that all tied in with each other, but for the conclusion didn’t bring everything together to the extent that I had hoped. In fact, there is one story that I have no idea how it relates to the rest of them, and for many I know that they relate but I don’t know exactly how.
I will probably try reading it again at some point now that I know the characters names, and in the meantime will stew over it hoping the dots will suddenly connect.