Rate this book

Portrait Of A Girl (2014)

by Dörthe Binkert(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1477823441 (ISBN13: 9781477823446)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

AmazonCrossing

review 1: I received this book from a goodreads giveaway a few months ago and just now got around to reading it.Simply put, I did not enjoy this book. It definitely wasn't what i was expecting judging from the synopsis. Much of the book is spent with characters who have nothing to do with Nika's "quest" to find out who she is and where she came from, and a few were especially unnecessary, Kate Simpson and her husband, for example. I just felt that this novel should have been focused more on Nika and her story. Also, the climax, if you can even call it that, came almost at the end of the book and the bits after that seem rushed.I am hoping that the other 2 giveaway books i have since received are more to my liking.
review 2: I received Portrait of a Girl from a Goodreads ... moregiveaway.I really liked this book. I've never read anything like it and the intertwining story lines really went together and, in my opinion, didn't get confusing or tangled up at all.The reason I gave this 3 stars is because I had a few issues with this book. First, I don't know if this is because it's a translation from German into English but at some points it read a bit awkward. Second, there were a few times where it didn't sound like something someone in the 1890's would say or how they would talk which kind of took me out of the story a little bit.Third there are a couple of characters in this book that I couldn't stand one more then the others. First there's Kate who was supremely annoying and self centered and I was so happy when she left. Second Segantini who is a major character in this book. He let me down. I was really sad when it came to his character. To me the way he treated the people in his life was terrible and I honestly couldn't see any good quality about him and I couldn't understand why all of these people liked him because about a fourth of the way into the book I started to dislike him and I started to become disappointed in him. Third, and this is the big one, Andrina, I wanted to crawl through the book and slap this girl. She was conniving, selfish, and self centered to name a few things. This is the first character in a long time that I actually hated and every time she came up in the book I had to roll my eyes.Overall this was a good book when looking past the things that I mentioned above. I wish I could give this book 4 or 5 stars but I can't. less

Download links for: Portrait of a Girl

Advertising