A review by shahnamarie
Birds of Wonder by Cynthia Robinson
3.0
I received an advanced copy of Birds of Wonder from Netgalley, Standing Stone Books, and author Cynthia Robinson in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by those mentioned above.
I like the backbone of this book. This had a lot of screwed up characters to really make this more interesting! I feel like the character could have added much more suspense. This isn't your typical "whodunnit" although each character we meet really does look guilty. I can tell the author wanted to do something a little different and she really did.
I struggled with rating this book because I did like it. It just didn't captivate it like the potential it had to do! Also, I didn't quite understand the whole concept of the birds. I liked it but I have yet to discover the symbolism of all of the birds that are mentioned. I'm assuming right now that it's because each character can be compared to a bird in which she describes, HOWEVER, like I mentioned, I'm finishing up grad school this week so all of my mental analysis has been going right to that. I was reading more for plot (and I'll be honest, I kind of like reading for more of the story anyway) but any analysis I could do I wasted on my school work. Maybe I should have read this when I had more time to think and ponder the words.
The characters are all sincerly messed up. Each and every character is really dishonest and hard to like, besides Beatrice for me who I felt so very bad for! There are many different points of views in this story and it can become easily confusing. I stuggled with the characters at first because of this.
I think I expected more of a crime story and didn't quite get just that. I may have enjoyed this more at a different point in my life.
I like the backbone of this book. This had a lot of screwed up characters to really make this more interesting! I feel like the character could have added much more suspense. This isn't your typical "whodunnit" although each character we meet really does look guilty. I can tell the author wanted to do something a little different and she really did.
I struggled with rating this book because I did like it. It just didn't captivate it like the potential it had to do! Also, I didn't quite understand the whole concept of the birds. I liked it but I have yet to discover the symbolism of all of the birds that are mentioned. I'm assuming right now that it's because each character can be compared to a bird in which she describes, HOWEVER, like I mentioned, I'm finishing up grad school this week so all of my mental analysis has been going right to that. I was reading more for plot (and I'll be honest, I kind of like reading for more of the story anyway) but any analysis I could do I wasted on my school work. Maybe I should have read this when I had more time to think and ponder the words.
The characters are all sincerly messed up. Each and every character is really dishonest and hard to like, besides Beatrice for me who I felt so very bad for! There are many different points of views in this story and it can become easily confusing. I stuggled with the characters at first because of this.
I think I expected more of a crime story and didn't quite get just that. I may have enjoyed this more at a different point in my life.