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Mountains Of The Moon (2012)

by I.J. Kay(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0670023671 (ISBN13: 9780670023677)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I found this book very confusing and after reading it, I still don't really know the story. The jumping back and forth in time and place, sometimes from paragraph to paragraph, made it impossible to follow. And, what WAS the main character's name, for gods sake? Louise? Lulu? Catherine? Kim? I didn't understand any of it and could not discern any explanation for anything that happened. What did happen? Was she at one point locked up in a basement by the "Sandwich Man"? Did she murder multiple people and if not, why was she confessing to multiple murders? What was with the mental institutions scenes? Anton? angel Michael? And, the language was really hard to decipher. I finally figured out that "tends" meant, "pretends". "Int" was "isn't". The beginnings of wor... moreds were left off, and sometimes I had no idea what she was saying. Example: Page 316--"I hear the fly-garic screaming." WTF? And the misspellings -- what was the point? "Palice" for palace? Why? Sounds the same, so why bother? The main character uses the word psychopath and that's not misspelled, so, why palice? I didn't like this book and would not recommend it.
review 2: Won this off Goodreads. Fractured, layered, at times complex but for me mostly boring. I am not convinced this was my cup of tea but may re-read at a later date. I love authors like Virginia Woolf with the stream of consciousness novels that made her famous. However, for me, this first novel had me scratching my head at times and wondering do I really care about the central character? Still, grateful I had the chance to read this. less

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