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A review by borbala_17
The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson Morgan
3.0
"... my emotions at that moment were indescribable."
Thanks to Heaven that they were, otherwise I really don't know how I would have been able to finish this novel.
I'm not saying it's bad, but I am saying that the excessively sentimentalist narration (and I'm not exactly a beginner at reading this kind of fiction) and the stereotyping and myth-imbued-history-making did make me roll my eyes every two minutes. The constant mentions of the Milesians and the Greek made me feel as if I was watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and I could hear the father saying, "Tell me one word, any word, and I'll show you how the root of that word is Greek"...
So, I found it hard to choose a rating, because I'm the kind of person who gives out ratings below 3 very rarely, for surely, there might be some redeeming qualities, and anyways, based on what are you supposed to rate a book, and other people say it's good and, and, and... So. 3 it is for now.
Not going to lie, the last few chapters had me in a chokehold, so much so, that I kept reading it on the bus to, and before the beginning of a Stabat Mater concert I went to (in a Gothic church, if I may add...).
Thanks to Heaven that they were, otherwise I really don't know how I would have been able to finish this novel.
I'm not saying it's bad, but I am saying that the excessively sentimentalist narration (and I'm not exactly a beginner at reading this kind of fiction) and the stereotyping and myth-imbued-history-making did make me roll my eyes every two minutes. The constant mentions of the Milesians and the Greek made me feel as if I was watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and I could hear the father saying, "Tell me one word, any word, and I'll show you how the root of that word is Greek"...
So, I found it hard to choose a rating, because I'm the kind of person who gives out ratings below 3 very rarely, for surely, there might be some redeeming qualities, and anyways, based on what are you supposed to rate a book, and other people say it's good and, and, and... So. 3 it is for now.
Not going to lie, the last few chapters had me in a chokehold, so much so, that I kept reading it on the bus to, and before the beginning of a Stabat Mater concert I went to (in a Gothic church, if I may add...).