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3.5 stars
This book has some of the most beautiful prose in it that I have ever read. Few books are set with the beauty that this one is. Not actually enough to become a character in the book, but so startling that it cannot be avoided or go unmentioned.
Both love and death play big parts in this story. I can see different people claiming which played the strongest part. For me death won out. This is not a boohoo cry all the time or even an exclusively sad book, it just deals with death a lot. Bu ...more
This book has some of the most beautiful prose in it that I have ever read. Few books are set with the beauty that this one is. Not actually enough to become a character in the book, but so startling that it cannot be avoided or go unmentioned.
Both love and death play big parts in this story. I can see different people claiming which played the strongest part. For me death won out. This is not a boohoo cry all the time or even an exclusively sad book, it just deals with death a lot. Bu ...more
Any book that starts with a kaleidoscope, which is the present Ani and Mac buy for their daughter Isabel’s tenth birthday, was always going to have me reading further. I love kaleidoscopes, remember them from my own childhood and find it interesting to see them coming back into the shops.
Anikka or Ani is very easy to relate to. Her daughter Isabel is older than her years but it works, because that is often the way an only child will be especially when tragedy intervenes in her life, as it does f ...more
Anikka or Ani is very easy to relate to. Her daughter Isabel is older than her years but it works, because that is often the way an only child will be especially when tragedy intervenes in her life, as it does f ...more
Not as good as A Hundred Small Lessons, also by Ashley Hay. This one felt more wordy and with less of a plot, more description. It felt a bit like literary fiction, which is never my favourite genre. An enjoyable enough read, but not something I would rave over.
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Beautifully written but perhaps too much... it becomes labored and just not enough story for me.
Feb 26, 2014
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