A review by wildflowerz76
The Shadow Land, by Elizabeth Kostova
3.0
I REALLY loved The Historian. I gave it 5 stars. So, I was very much looking forward to another book by this author.
And, to be fair, it did start out well. Kostova writes beautifully. I normally get bogged down by too very much description, but the language here is beautiful.
However. Somewhere around a 1/3 of the way through this one, I just got bored. It felt like we kept rehashing the same things over and over again. Odd little details stood out like they were supposed to mean something in the end when they didn't really many anything at all. Each stop on the journey just felt like a repeat of what we'd already heard before. The only one with any real depth was the dead guy and I even got bored with him along the way also.
In the end, I was pretty dissatisfied with this one. The story was interesting, but it just drug on for entirely too long and I found myself just wanting to be done with it already.
And, to be fair, it did start out well. Kostova writes beautifully. I normally get bogged down by too very much description, but the language here is beautiful.
However. Somewhere around a 1/3 of the way through this one, I just got bored. It felt like we kept rehashing the same things over and over again. Odd little details stood out like they were supposed to mean something in the end when they didn't really many anything at all. Each stop on the journey just felt like a repeat of what we'd already heard before. The only one with any real depth was the dead guy and I even got bored with him along the way also.
In the end, I was pretty dissatisfied with this one. The story was interesting, but it just drug on for entirely too long and I found myself just wanting to be done with it already.