A review by bookdragonhoard
The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

1.0

I loved Madeleine L'Engle's chronos quintet. I picked this book up for nostalgia for the Murray/O'Keefe family. So disappointed. The whole thing was disappointing. The characters seem so flat and poorly drawn. The protagonist is a dope, invested in any pretty girl who throws dramatics. The girl he's met twice insists she loves him and will kill herself if he doesn't prove himself? What? Persuasion by unlikeable character hinges on 'Dont you love your country'?. Ugh. I will probably slog through the rest of the quartet for closure but as of book one I'm completely unimpressed. Maybe I've just outgrown contrived dramatics and all things are good or evil dichotomies. Maybe