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A review by bunceyyy
A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson
3.0
Thanks to Bloomsbury and NetGalley for an advance e-copy of this title.
First off, I think this book probably fared badly considering my headspace and the state the world is in at the moment. My first quarantine-read was never going to be brilliant. Additionally, I’m not very familiar with this period of history, and the real-life characters that populate the book. Added to that I was reading it on a Kindle - meaning I couldn’t flick back to check where they had first appeared - and the lack of backstory that each character suffered from, this fell rather flat for me. I didn’t engage with any of the characters, and found myself skipping over parts where I couldn’t identify what was happening, or to whom. This resulted in a disappointing reading experience, where the setting occasionally shone through, but the plot fell apart/never really began. I may revisit this in a few years, with a physical copy, and update my views then.
First off, I think this book probably fared badly considering my headspace and the state the world is in at the moment. My first quarantine-read was never going to be brilliant. Additionally, I’m not very familiar with this period of history, and the real-life characters that populate the book. Added to that I was reading it on a Kindle - meaning I couldn’t flick back to check where they had first appeared - and the lack of backstory that each character suffered from, this fell rather flat for me. I didn’t engage with any of the characters, and found myself skipping over parts where I couldn’t identify what was happening, or to whom. This resulted in a disappointing reading experience, where the setting occasionally shone through, but the plot fell apart/never really began. I may revisit this in a few years, with a physical copy, and update my views then.