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Pearl In A Cage (2009)

by Joy Dettman(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1742144977 (ISBN13: 9781742144979)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Bolinda Publishing

series

A Woody Creek Novel

review 1: I really persisted with this book. But I just could not keep going. I made it through 340 of 576 pages. I wanted to love it, especially given that it was Book 1 in a series of 6. But there were too many characters & just not enough happening. I just didn't really care what happened to anyone. I wasn't connected to them. And like another reviewer has said, I felt like I was hovering over the characters, rather than immersed in their world.
review 2: This is a story set in a small country town in Victoria, Australia, in the early 1900s. As such it appealed to me in an historical sense. Sadly, I almost gave up on the book a few times. I found it had too many characters for me to keep track of, too many side stories that interrupted the main story; most of them tra... moregic. No doubt in a small country town there are many interesting characters with fascinating stories, but in a novel I found it overwhelming. I also found the POV very difficult. It was mainly in a universal POV which left me feeling I was hovering above the story rather than experiencing life through the characters eyes - even the main characters. However, in spite of all that, I was intrigued by the central characters; a middle aged woman and a baby born in tragic circumstances whose lives become entwined. I couldn't put it down until I found out what happened as the child grew up. This is not a light-hearted story by any means and in parts is almost unbearably tragic. Even the ending brings only a little relief to the sadness of the story, though it does offer some hope. Certainly not for the faint hearted. less

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