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Die Hummerschwestern (2012)

by Beverly Jensen(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

btb

review 1: I wasted time reading the first half of this book. The first few chapters were very promising. Then it would abruptly end a period of time in the story and jump ahead to another time (frankly less interesting). It had me saying--Well, wait! Go back and finish what happened after that! I do not like fragmented stories that try to span several years. I prefer a story that flows smoothly and breaks time when it makes sense to do it.The chapter which was devoted to Avis receiving a baby cow just struck me as a boring non-story that my elders used to tell me that had no beginning middle or end and no point to it. (Chris Farley used to have a skit where he would interview people and his "questions" were just "Remember the time you ______, yeah that was cool" ) I'm wondering if t... morehe late author wrote the book based on family anecdotes and didn't take the time to construct a real full-bodied story. Can you tell I didn't like this book?Update******If it is what other reviewers are saying, a book of short stories, then it should plainly state that in the synopsis or on the cover. It was marketed as a novel by the publisher, which it is not. I do not like short stories and especially weak short stories that are not strong enough to stand alone. That is all.
review 2: This was a "Wow" book at the local library. And indeed, it was promising at the start. Set in the early 1900s in New Brunswick (bonus). A family barely scraping by, mother dies in childbirth, leaving two sisters to live with the father and a sullen brother. The baby goes to live with an aunt (and we never really hear any more of her). A young women answers the father's ad for help, and she comes with a past, but disappears from the book in no time. Part One was promising, but after that first part, it is almost as though it is a different story - it almost gets silly and rather than a novel, more like a collection of short stories. The characters are not fleshed out and stories, in my mind, left unfinished. Disappointing. less

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