[calibrebooks] Re: What are...
- From: "Elizabeth Lovick" <liz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <calibrebooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:36:27 +0100
Well, earlier this week I did something I very rarely do - I sent a book
back without reading much of it. It was a novel, and totally forgetable! I
can't remember the title, let alone what it was about.
Then I read Vein of Deceit by Susanna Gregory. It was a novel set in the
1350s, in Cambridge - a detective story. It wasn't bad, but it was overly
complex, and the characters were wooden. I think it might be better in
print where you can look back and see who the charters are - there were so
many, all introduced at once.
Now I am reading an Audible book by Jill Paton Walsh, one using Dorothy L
Sayer's characters. This is much better! The characters are introduced
gradually and you have time to work them out! And they are more rounded -
you can believe in them.
Liz
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Elizabeth Lovick, Orkney, UK
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